Name: Yu Rain
Author: Single-Minded Cilantro

Synopsis

“Knowing the Rain” / “Loving the Rain”

Ning Zhiyu was the entertainment industry's most obscure nobody.

The kind no one had ever heard of.

With a month left on his contract, his manager sent him on a dating reality show for his final month. Fine, then. Time to lie flat.

While everyone else frantically tried to win people over, he snuck snacks in a corner.

While everyone else scrambled to get on the movie emperor's camera, he went back to his room to sleep.

Fans: “Son, stop sleeping and get on the movie emperor's camera!!”

Ning Zhiyu had always been a contrarian. Get on camera? Instead, he turned around and told the movie emperor to get on his.

The movie emperor's fans exploded: “?? Are you even worthy?”

But the movie emperor himself simply smiled and stepped closer. “Thank you, Teacher Ning, for giving me this opportunity.”

As thunder rumbled and rain poured down, Ning Zhiyu was about to lock the door when he saw Jiang Zhiyu standing outside, clutching a pillow and looking utterly pitiful.

Wait, pitiful?

“Teacher Ning, I'm scared of thunder. Could I stay with you for one night?”

He looked so heartbreakingly vulnerable.

The next day, the whole internet erupted.

The number-one trending topic was: “Jiang Zhiyu: I'm scared of thunder.”

“They're all fake. You two are the only real couple, right?”

Jiang Zhiyu responded on Weibo: “We're not together. I'm still pursuing him.”

That night, Jiang Zhiyu pinned Ning Zhiyu's wrist with one hand and wrapped the other around his waist, then asked softly, “Teacher Ning, will you accept my confession?”

“Wait, don't you have someone you can't forget?”

“It was always you.”

It was raining hard the first time Jiang Zhiyu met Ning Zhiyu.

The boy's lips curved into a radiant smile as he said, “I'll protect you for the rest of my life.”

His smile outshone everything in the world.

Jiang Zhiyu remembered those words for the rest of his life.

Other names

The Cold and Aloof Movie Emperor Is Actually a Clingy Puppy清冷影帝竟是黏人小狗Alternate title on Fanqie

Stats

185Chapters

2.2kReads · 30 days

426.8kReads · all time

367Shelf adds, last 14 days

9.2Score

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