The neon-lit entertainment industry has no room for absolute cleanliness.
In Jiang Lai's fifth year in city B, he was still a low-level artist promoter in a small company. Her slender shoulders carry a far overloaded life: she pours out her heart and soul to her boyfriend Wu Yue, but only gets more demands and mental control from him. The number on the salary slip can never fill the hole of love, and she is trapped in a cage of self-movement because of her love brain.
Luo Chen stood in the position of a second-tier actor, being chased by the spotlight and black material at the same time. A former bar singer, he broke through with his acting skills, but he was suffocated by the shackles of a secret marriage - his wife threatened him with exposing her privacy, turning the marriage into blackmail.
In the hustle and bustle of M Bar, the two worlds collided unexpectedly. Jiang Lai was attending to workplace entertainment and mentally calculating the living expenses for Wu Yue; Luo Chen wore a peaked cap to avoid sight and staggered to the bathroom.
He is a "bad artist" who was kidnapped by marriage, and she is the "love brain" who was PUAed by love. This encounter with desire and calculation unexpectedly became the beginning of redemption. Jiang Lai saw his own cowardice in Luo Chen's struggle; the seemingly cynical Luo Chen understood his humble desire in Jiang Lai's efforts.
When Wu Yue's greed, memorial paranoia, and ace manager Sister Dou's warnings hit them one after another, these imperfect colleagues could only pull each other away in the vanity fair of the entertainment industry. Their redemption was never a fairy tale, with calculations, temptations and scars from the past, but at the most embarrassing moment, they allowed each other to see clearly: perhaps it was this imperfection that gave the embrace warmth.
