After Lin Jianxia finished presenting her seventeen-page script, Zhou Xubai drew a red cross on the final page. She thought he was going to cut her favorite ending, only to realize that this habitual critic understood exactly why she couldn’t bear to remove it. Racing to meet the arts festival’s review deadline, she auditioned actors and checked the auditorium equipment. As they argued, they somehow turned a play that couldn’t be performed into a version ready for rehearsal.
The bigger problem was that she seemed to have fallen for him. That night, she asked her anonymous partner of two years, “Night Sail,” for advice: “How do you pursue someone you can’t stand?” Night Sail replied, “Tell me what you can’t stand about him first.” Lin Jianxia didn’t know that Night Sail was Zhou Xubai. Zhou Xubai didn’t know he was teaching her how to pursue him.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
