The two stood together, and who wouldn't declare them a match made in heaven, a perfect pair?
If Zhou Bingquan hadn't seen Lin Xuansu at Tao Qingyi's birthday party, he might have gone along with his family's wishes and pursued the young Miss Tao.
For an arranged marriage between aristocratic families, it only mattered not to detest each other.
As for affection, who's to say it can't be cultivated?
Zhou Bingquan was already very calculating in his youth. He was reserved and cool, which many took for steadiness, but in truth, he simply disdained conversing with these people.
They were all a bunch of extravagantly vain and foolish individuals.
But Lin Xuansu was different. She was so pure, so gentle, like the soft, harmless reflection of the moon on a lake.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Zhou Bingquan fell for Lin Xuansu at first sight.