Xu Rui is a top actor, an unreachable deity in the entertainment industry, aloof and noble, with acting skills that have reached legendary heights.
Only he knows that the one role he has played throughout his life, for twenty years, is the “patiently devoted husband” to his childhood friend next door, Xiang Qing, whose mind is filled with nothing but code.
She is a brilliant researcher at the National Computing Institute. Logic is her only mother tongue, and love is an indecipherable string of gibberish.
He has made himself the most familiar warmth by her side: keeping her company on Lunar New Year’s Eve, serving her food at the reunion dinner, and a heartbeat beneath the fireworks that no one else knows about... Carefully advancing one step at a time, patiently laying his plans.
He thought this was a long experiment he was destined to win.
Until she followed the “optimal solution” and got into another man’s car.
Until, under the microscope, he saw a romance bestowed by someone else, one he had never anticipated.
The water seems to be getting out of control.
The competitive instincts of a top hunter have been awakened. In this carefully orchestrated “cooking” that has been twenty years in the making, which of them will be the first to drown in the gradually boiling whirlpool?
