They first met in the library of their secondary school and in 13 years together had always maintained a modest sense of where they'd come from. He had no interest in ostentation, while she hoped one day to start the marketing degree she'd once enrolled for.
But for all that self-effacement, Diogo Jota and Rute Cardoso's lives, choreographed in the thoroughly contemporary way through Instagram, had seemed peerless and perfect, without a cloud in their sky.
The contrast between their immaculately pictured world – culminating in their Catholic wedding near the banks of Porto's River Douro on a peerless June afternoon ten days ago - and the twisted wreckage of the Lamborghini in which Jota and his 26-year-old brother died is one of the most devastating aspects of what came to pass in the early hours of Thursday.