Whispers of the Stars

A bold, flamboyant Kunqu opera performer × a gentle, resilient ray of sunshine

[A sweet-and-angsty campus and city romance + childhood friends with mutual secret crushes + reunion after years apart and mutual healing + a touch of wealthy-family ensemble]

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Everyone knew that for many, many years, Tan Qingyu had been secretly in love with her childhood friend, Cheng Qianyi.

The once-golden boy was struck by misfortune and fell into depression. Tan Qingyu’s love, too, was forced to end when she went abroad to study.

Years later, they met again in Su City. Cheng Qianyi had become a celebrated Kunqu opera performer, and the truth about what had happened years ago gradually came to light.

Amid the misty rain of Jiangnan, Tan Qingyu always remembered the young man in his blue stage robes, smiling as he told her, “The lyrics say, ‘For you, I’d trade the fairest beauty and years that flow like water.’ But that still falls short of how I feel about you. I hope we’ll be together for years and years, every day and every night.”

For years, she had gazed up at the stars over Paris, but none shone as brilliantly as that dazzling young man.

Thank goodness for Cheng Qianyi. He made her life complete.