Chapter One: The Man She Could Not Hear

In time, she became the most expensive—and hardest to book—wedding-vow writer in the city. Seven days before her own wedding, Xu Manqing and Chen Jiashu came to her studio. “I will always put her first,” Chen Jiashu said, gazing openly at his fiancée. Lin Wan had already heard what lay beneath it. No matter what happens, I will never let Manqing suffer because of me. Crack. Her pen paused. The sound did not mean he was lying. On the contrary, at that moment he believed completely in his ability to keep the promise. But somewhere ahead, at a fork in the road not yet reached, he would choose the opposite direction. “Ms. Lin?” Manqing prompted.