Jian You, a director who has won countless awards in her seven years since debuting, is at the peak of her stable and celebrated career. Yet, she suddenly takes on a romance variety show. According to gossip, she’ll be paired in a “business CP” with an 18th-tier actress.
Jian You’s fans are furious: Certain 18th-tier actresses better not try too hard to cozy up to our big sister, or we’ll assume you’re just leeching off her fame!
After the show airs: Is… is it our big sister who’s cozying up to her…?
Onlookers speculate that this 18th-tier actress must have an extraordinary background.
Jian You’s mysophobia? Doesn’t affect her around this actress.
Jian You’s stern demeanor? Constantly broken in her presence.
Jian You’s perfectionism? She single-handedly changed it.
Onlookers: The all-powerful boss changing for love vs. the naive 18th-tier sweetie chasing her idol – I ship it!
Jian You’s fans rage: The 18th-tier is just using her family’s money to latch on! Our big sister is only sacrificing herself for art, raising money for her film! CP shippers have no heart.
The next day, Jian You posts on Weibo: @YunChu Missing you.
Fans: ?
Didn’t you just see each other yesterday?!
Yun Chu once thought the most absurd thing she’d ever done was offering herself to Jian You, sleeping with her, and then running away.
Five years later, however, she broke her own record-using investment in a new film as leverage to threaten Jian You into joining a romance variety show with her.
Jian You agreed but didn’t remember her at all.
Until one day, she cornered Jian You where the cameras couldn’t see and asked with red-rimmed eyes, “…You don’t remember me?”
Jian You slowly let out an “ah,” lifted a strand of her hair, and smiled nonchalantly. “Oh, that little kid.”
The spring breeze is easily forgotten.
But the sounds of crying that night were remembered clearly.
The kite she had let fly, after drifting and turning, had still willingly fallen back into her palm.
#Spent a fortune to pretend-date my secret crush, only to get eaten clean
#Thought it was forced business, but actually enjoyed it immensely
#Mutual Pining
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