After Losing My Job, I Became the Film Emperor's Secret Lover

[Actor × civilian | HE] Once, he was Jiang Yuzhou, the dazzling campus heartthrob, secretly harboring an innocent but unrequited crush on his classmate, Ruan Wu. After graduation, fate sent them down entirely different paths. With talent and hard work, Jiang Yuzhou rose to the top of the entertainment industry, becoming a celebrated actor adored by millions. Ruan Wu, meanwhile, followed the usual path into the working world, only to be dealt a crushing blow by the changing times. Her company laid off its staff and went bankrupt, her field of study offered little hope in the midst of a downturn, and her job search led nowhere. She could only scrape by on odd temporary jobs. A chance encounter at a music festival brought the past back to life and laid bare the cruelty of reality. A superstar high above the crowd, and a security guard struggling on the margins of life. A crush left unspoken in college, and a gulf in status that seemed impossible to cross after they reunited. Jiang Yuzhou could no longer take his eyes off the figure silently keeping watch at the edge of the crowd. Was it guilt? Feelings that had never faded? Or simply a desire to make up for the regrets he’d left unspoken back then? He was determined to get closer to her, understand her, and even... find his way back into her world. But Ruan Wu was no longer the girl she’d been in the ivory tower. The burdens of life had taught her to be practical and built a wall around her heart. Faced with the sudden attention of the superstar she’d once secretly loved, all she felt was wariness and resistance. She didn’t need his pity, and she certainly didn’t want to become some curiosity added to his glittering life.