[Two male leads + showbiz + reunion after years apart + secret love becomes mutual + bittersweet]
A gentle, devoted, patient, fatherly movie star VS a cool, self-possessed, brilliant scientist who is his unattainable first love
Newly crowned Best Actor Xie Lin has had a secret crush for ten years on Wen Jingci, a physics professor.
When they meet again, the man he loves has his arm linked with someone else’s, his gaze unfamiliar and distant.
Xie Lin tells himself: I’ll quietly stay by his side. As long as he’s happy, that’s enough.
He brings Wen Jingci his favorite black coffee, gives him a bookmark engraved with his name for his birthday, and anonymously sends emergency funding when the professor’s laboratory is short on money…
He works hard to go from a stranger to the “close friend” Wen Jingci calls him.
Caught in a relationship he can neither advance nor retreat from, every step is agonizing.
Then Xu Xingzhi, a Wall Street tycoon, appears and aggressively pursues Wen Jingci.
Watching Wen Jingci smile at Xu Xingzhi, Xie Lin’s usual restraint finally snaps.
To hell with gentlemanly manners! To hell with quietly staying by his side!
He pins Wen Jingci against the wall, eyes red. “Wen Jingci, look at me. The one who loves you so much he’s going crazy… is me.”
After ten years of secret love, he no longer wants to be a knight. He wants to be the man who can rightfully embrace him, kiss him, and spend the rest of their lives together as his legal husband.
Don't let the two of you be together.