Chapter One: The Man She Could Not Hear

Lin Wan rotated the draft. “Forever is too broad. What about: ‘Whenever I make an important decision, I will discuss it with you first’?” Jiashu agreed with a smile. Another crack sounded, clearer than the first. After they left, Lin Wan's business partner, Tang Li, set an iced Americano beside her. “You looked as if you were reading an autopsy report for their marriage.” “The wording was wrong.” “You're so perceptive about everyone else. How are you not even slightly anxious about Zhou Xubai?” Lin Wan lowered her eyes to the papers. Of course she was anxious. She could hear promises rising and falling through a crowd like a tide, yet she had never heard anything inside Zhou Xubai.