[Top-Tier Star dance-and-vocal queen vs. genius trainee]
[Long-planned schemes + showbiz + secret identity + healing]
Top-tier star dance-and-vocal queen Su Jinya (Kiya) returns to her home country and makes a surprise appearance as a mentor on a talent show. She was the only C-country center in H-country’s limited-time group, a mixed-race beauty with an air of nobility. But she refuses to rely on her family’s connections and insists on reaching new heights through her own talent.
Nobody knows she also returned to find the little boy from the M-country slums who gave her an apple pie ten years ago.
Then, at the first performance, an unknown contestant in a dark hoodie blows everyone away. He rearranges her signature song and dances with dark, almost frenzied intensity. When he looks up at the end, his ink-black eyes reflect only her.
“Why did you choose this song?”
He clenches the old electronic watch in his pocket, his voice trembling. “Because I like it.”
Only later does everyone find out:
He is the anonymous arrangement genius “Shadow,” who wrote her most popular solo song.
He has depression, yet he always offers the mints in his pocket to her first when she’s nervous.
He didn’t join the talent show to debut. He came to turn ten years of “a shadow chasing the light” into a lifetime of “standing beside the light.”
But when the whole internet attacks him as a “stalker fan” and a product of a “toxic family,” she steps in front of him. “He’s mine. Who dares touch him?”
With red-rimmed eyes, he holds her. “Jinya, I’ve been looking for you for ten years.”
She pats his head, the tips of her ears turning red. “Silly, I’ve been looking for you too.”
