The snap of a safety wire thirty meters above the ground was the last sound Su Qingyan, a triple-crown Best Actress, ever heard. When she opened her eyes again, she was Lin Wei, a timid, taciturn trainee ranked dead last at an idol audition camp.
From a top-tier star with seventeen trophies to a contestant on the verge of elimination who couldn’t even manage the basic dance steps, Su Qingyan’s life had been shattered. A strange body, malicious ostracism, and the mentor Gu Yanzhi, famed for his icy manner and sharp tongue. He looked at her as if she were an ant trying to curry favor with the powerful, his eyes full of disgust.
“Get that scheming trash out of my sight.” Those were his first words to her.
But who was she? Su Qingyan, who could calmly face a crush of reporters on the Cannes red carpet and finish a single take in freezing water at twenty degrees below zero. No matter how small the stage, she would stand at its center. No matter how deep the prejudice, she would break through it with her talent.
She infused her singing and dancing with her ballet training, and performed every song with an actor’s extraordinary empathy, leaving the people who had once mocked her dumbfounded. Gu Yanzhi’s gaze shifted from disdain to scrutiny, from impatience to… a concern he hadn’t even noticed in himself. He watched the seemingly fragile girl stand tall time and again in the face of malice, like a white poplar bent by a gale but never broken. The frozen lake in his heart, sealed over for his “white moonlight,” quietly began to crack.
Just then, the man she had treasured in her previous life, top actor Lu Zhiyan, entered her life with just the right touch of gentleness. He remembered what she liked, soothed her wounds, and spun a tender web of attentive care around her. “Don’t be afraid. I’m here.”
Clear structure and beautiful