An Obsession in the Spotlight

Pei Jingran, who can turn the business world upside down, × Wen Xiaofan, coldly beautiful and distant.

No one knows that behind her “distance” lies twenty years of darkness.

A hypnosis accident stirs up a storm, sending him back thirteen years in time.

In the sunset outside a kindergarten, he meets again the adorable woman he knows from the future, so different from the distant person she will become. Her smile is coated in a thin layer of sweetness, but beneath it lies a heart chilled to the core.

He takes on the identity of “Teacher Pei” and quietly draws close to her softness.

In the Little Sun class, he keeps her safe in his arms and slips her every kind of candy, sweetening the darkness in her heart. He wraps his coat around her slender shoulders, never exposing the disguise behind her smile, and quietly becomes her umbrella. When her stomach hurts, he carries her to the infirmary, hurrying every step of the way.

Little by little, he peels away her disguise:

The “little sun” of her childhood was warmth she forced herself to show.

The “ice queen” she becomes is a cocoon built to keep from getting hurt.

“You don’t have to pretend to be strong. You can cry, and you can ask for candy. I’ll always be by your side.”

She, too, gradually lets down her guard. Her distant “Thank you, big brother” turns into a playful tug at his sleeve: “You’re my family. Don’t go too far away.”

The time he has left in the past is running out, and at last, he has won custody. Standing in the wind outside the villa, his body slowly turns transparent.

He makes a promise to the little girl: “When you grow up, I’ll find you again. I’ll give you a home full of light, with no more darkness.”

But in his heart, he sighs softly:

I lied.

I’ve already rewritten time itself.

Perhaps we will never meet again in the future.

But I’m willing to trade that meeting across the years, and never seeing you again,

so that you never again turn away from the world,

and your smile stays as sweet as it was when we first met.