Xu Lin was born with a glandular atrophy and could only be an ordinary beta. Because of an accident, and in order to protect the person he loved, his face was disfigured.

After this accident, Ji Jixuan proposed to him.

Xu Lin’s years of affection were finally reciprocated. He finally got his wish and married the Ji Jixuan he loved most.

Ji Jixuan’s status was special, so they couldn’t officially register their marriage, and the wedding couldn’t be grand or public. It could only be held quietly. On the wedding day, there was only one guest present, making it a cold and cheerless affair. But Xu Lin didn’t care, he loved his wedding very much.

For six years of marriage, Ji Jixuan rarely came home. The two spent little time together and were often apart. Xu Lin understood that he was busy with affairs, so he didn’t argue or make a fuss, unwilling to cause him any trouble. He obediently guarded the home that contained only himself.

Until one day, he inadvertently stumbled into a crowded engagement banquet. The place was bustling with noise and voices, and the new couple standing among the crowd was all too familiar to him. Ji Jixuan, his husband, was engaged to someone else.

It was only then that he woke up as if from a dream. He learned that the wedding back then was merely a dream Ji Jixuan, out of gratitude, had charitably bestowed upon him, a game of house that only Xu Lin had taken seriously.

It wasn’t that the wedding couldn’t be grand and public, it just depended on who the other person was.

The marriage he was so proud of was “in his eyes alone.”

Ji Jixuan x Xu Lin

Formerly aloof & indifferent, later mad dog crawling gong X Formerly straightforward & dutiful, later sharp-tongued & prickly shou

AB, later AO (Shou transitions from B → O)

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