When they first got married, Lin Yuxi was very unfamiliar with him.
On her wedding day, she wore a beautiful wedding dress and didn't even smile.
Rings were exchanged during the ceremony, and when the master of ceremonies announced that the groom was kissing the bride, Zhou Yanjing held her hand with the ring on it and slowly approached her. Her eyelashes kept trembling under the white veil.
He looked funny and wanted to tease her, but finally let her go and borrowed a seat through the veil.
During the dinner, Zhou Yanjing was frequently drunk. He pretended to be drunk while walking around. Someone called Lin Yuxi, help your groom.
He glanced over and saw her standing there with a troubled expression for a few seconds before coming over and holding his arm like a grandma.
Arriving at the wedding room in Songyun Bay, when Zhou Yanjing returned to the room in the evening, she was sitting at the end of the bed waiting for him wearing the red dress she wore during the toast.
The one-word collar, the exposed shoulders are thin and delicate, the smooth texture of satin is wrapped around the slender waist, the fishtail skirt is piled on the carpet, and she wears a pair of crystal-strap high heels, thin The silver chain is wrapped around the ankle.
Zhou Yanjing felt like a furry insect had crawled into his heart and stirred.
That was the first time that he saw the tenderness and charm of an adult woman in Lin Yuxi.
She raised her eyes to look at him, her fingers picking at the fabric of her skirt and rubbing it.
She had not graduated yet, and her eyes were clear and nervous.
Zhou Yanjing stood there, fighting between heaven and man for a while, but finally the gentleman's demeanor prevailed: "I'll go to the guest room to sleep."
Everything in the wedding room was designed by Zhou Yanjing himself, and the floor lamp in the master bedroom was the most thoughtful.
Lin Yuxi had been afraid of the dark since she was a child and had to sleep with the lamp on. Aunt Zhao told her several times that it would be dazzling and would make her sleep difficult. When she listened, she looked cute and didn't talk back, and she never changed her words.
Night lights are not suitable because the illumination range is not enough and there will be dark blind spots.
Zhou Yanjing hired several lighting designers, revised dozens of versions of the plan, and conducted dozens of experiments before finally designing a light that could illuminate the entire room while being comfortable and not affecting sleep.
He didn't know whether Lin Yuxi slept well or not, because he slept in the guest room for the first two months after their marriage.
After spending several years as a waste in everyone's expectations, after getting married, Zhou Yanjing felt that he had the responsibility to support his wife, so he founded Boyu Investment Bank.
He didn't use any of the resources of the Zhou family. Perhaps he owed him a debt, so Zhou Qizhen and Ling Yaqiong did not object again.
It is not easy to start from scratch, and it is even more difficult for Lin Yuxi, a stone wrapped in ice, but Zhou Yanjing was very happy during that time.
With his lover in his arms and his career in hand, all the previous imbalances seemed to have been healed. He now had what he wanted to do and someone he wanted to love.
He spent all his efforts on Lin Yuxi, and it took him several months to slowly coax Lin Yuxi into not being so resistant to him.
Until the unexpected blizzard ruined his planned honeymoon trip, he had the happiest time in his life in the northern suburbs.
He has never loved a woman like that. He loves her so much that he has her in his eyes and in his heart. He coaxes her stubborn donkey-like temper and is always the first to bow his head and give in. It is more important than anything else for her to smile.
Before, he might not have been able to bear the life of being trapped in a house for three days.
At that time, he was like a foolish king obsessed with beauty, deceiving Lin Yuxi that the road was not repaired, and tried his best to keep her there.
He had never touched the sun since he was a child, and learned to cook there. He ignored the projects in the company and studied recipes as a career.
There was also a hot-headed moment when I asked her: "How about we live in seclusion here for the rest of our lives?"
There are only two of them in this world, and they constitute each other's world.
After returning from the northern suburbs, he and Lin Yuxi entered a brief period of love. He felt like he had fallen into a honey pot, and everything was as beautiful as a dream.
When he woke up from his dream at the stairs that day, he heard Ling Yaqiong say that it was his eldest brother that Lin Yuxi wanted to marry.
Zhou Sheng'an was a very complicated existence to him. He was both his closest brother and the person on the other side of the scale who would always overpower him.
He spent many years fighting and accepting that everything in the world belonged to his elder brother.
But he couldn't accept it. Even Lin Yuxi belonged to his eldest brother.
Anyone can do it, why should it be his eldest brother?
If even Lin Yuxi's balance is tilted towards her eldest brother, then what on earth does he love?
He had no way to go home and face Lin Yuxi, who loved his elder brother. He buried himself in one project after another, numbing his unexplainable mood with endless busyness.
He took the time to go there on Shi Tang's birthday, but he didn't expect Lin Yuxi to go.
The moment he saw her, all the suppressed emotions came back: disappointment, resentment, and unwillingness.
Why are you like this too? You love big brother, why should I love you? If you pretend to be him in your heart, it is only fair that I also pretend to be someone else.
Then, he made a mistake that could never be undone in his life.
He regretted it the moment he spoke, when Lin Yuxi left. After taking revenge on her, she didn't feel happy at all. Instead, she felt as bored as the air filled with humidity before a rainstorm.
He tossed and turned in the frighteningly silent night, unable to sleep, wondering if she would cry, she loved to cry so much.
In the end, he even convinced himself to just pretend he had never heard of it. She is not so indifferent to him, does she have a little love for him?
The eldest brother returned to the old house on the day of the engagement. He originally wanted to make peace.
I want to tell her that he lied that day and that he only loved her.
At the dinner table, Lin Yuxi didn't look at him the whole time. Zhou Yanjing gave her her favorite sweet and sour short ribs, but she didn't touch them.
After dinner, he went to look for her. At the corner of the corridor, he heard her ask her eldest brother in despair: "Do you love Miss Bai?"
Zhou Yanjing didn't notice that she looked at Bai Qingmei in a daze several times at the dining table.
That envious look was like a needle, piercing Zhou Yanjing's last self-deceptive expectations.
He leaned his head against the wallpaper in the corridor, looking at the dim overhead light on the ceiling, feeling disheartened.
He made the decision at that moment to leave for the United States.
During the more than two years in New York, Zhou Yanjing completely devoted himself to fast-paced and high-intensity work. The less time he had to spare, the less he thought about Lin Yuxi.
There were times when I had trouble sleeping, and when I had the urge to call her, I always gave up with my clear mind.
He returned to China half a year later, and Lin Yuxi's attitude towards him was back to what it was before the marriage, even colder than then.
She had no desire to communicate with him. Most of the time when Zhou Yanjing talked to her, she responded with silence.
When he came downstairs that morning, she was taking medicine, and Zhou Yanjing asked her, "Are you feeling unwell?"
She said she had a cold.
He asked her to wear thicker clothes, which might cool down the temperature, but she didn't say anything or add more clothes.
Before going out, Zhou Yanjing stopped her again and asked her what time she would get off work in the evening. She was silent for a while and said she would stay at Xiaoxiao's house tonight.
She didn't seem to remember that it was their wedding anniversary.
Zhou Yanjing traveled all the way back to seek help from himself, and flew back to New York that night.
In the past two years, there was a Pacific Ocean between him and Lin Yuxi, and the distance became farther and farther.
It wasn't until the fall of the third year that Ling Yaqiong called and reminded him that the three-year period was coming soon and that he should come back sometime to complete the procedures.
That day, Lin Yuxi, who had never contacted him before, called, and Zhou Yanjing knew that she must be calling to talk about divorce.
From his perspective, that was a sign that she couldn't wait for it to end.
At that time, he clearly knew that divorce was the best choice for him and Lin Yuxi, but at the same time there was another force competing with reason.
Originally, she wanted to end everything when she returned to China, but every time Lin Yuxi was about to file for divorce, that inexplicable power would suddenly and overwhelmingly overwhelm her reason.
So he used the most clumsy way to avoid and delay time and time again.
If he wakes up to what that power is earlier and admits that he still loves her and can't let her go, will he be able to keep her?
