Gu Ye is the entertainment industry’s undisputed top-tier star, dazzlingly brilliant and adored by countless fans. Yet on that rainy day, he knelt helplessly in the mud, gripping the hem of that person’s clothes, his voice hoarse and broken. “Qingxian… please, look at me one more time.”
Shen Qingxian was once a gifted rising director, aloof and proud, yet willing to soften his sharp edges for Gu Ye and become the secret hidden in the shadows behind him. Until the night of the film’s celebration banquet, when Gu Ye faced the cameras of the entire internet and casually denied everything. “Director Shen and I? I just got too deep into the role. It was a misunderstanding.”
He pushed Shen Qingxian into the abyss with his own hands, then smiled and asked why he wouldn’t play along.
Three years later, at the international film festival awards ceremony, the newly crowned Best Director, Shen Qingxian, stood at the center of the world, holding a golden trophy, cool and untouchable as an immortal. Gu Ye, once an arrogant top-tier star, could only gaze humbly from across the glittering crowd at the light he could never touch again.
Later, Gu Ye gave up all his fame and staked everything he owned just for a chance to return to Shen Qingxian’s crew. He made himself meek on set and accepted every indignity willingly, only to hear Shen Qingxian’s polite, distant reply every time: “Mr. Gu, please show some restraint.”
Everyone laughed that he had brought it on himself, and deserved to burn in the ashes of his attempt to win Shen Qingxian back.
No one knew that when Shen Qingxian was trapped in a dangerous building after an accident, Gu Ye had charged through the police cordon like a madman and used his own body to shield him. Near death from his injuries, he let his burning tears fall onto Shen Qingxian’s palm and murmured over and over, “This time… I’ve learned how to love you…”
As every misunderstanding and hidden pain comes to light with time, can a broken mirror truly be made whole again?
