Synopsis
Su Qiuzi lost her mother young, her father remarried and paid her little attention, and she managed to get through her late twenties more or less on her own. Then at her step-sister's birthday gathering, a man proposed to her — the same man her step-sister had her heart completely set on. He was good-looking, well-regarded, polished in that quiet sort of way. Known around Xia City as the bachelor everyone had their eye on. She only figured out after they were already married how much feeling he had buried under all that calm composure. Su Qiuzi went in thinking…
