Stars Beyond the Neon Embers

[Workplace romance × sudden return with a child to win her back × childhood friend rises to the top × two men competing for her × bittersweet happy ending]

Xu Zhiran has had two men in her life:

One taught her to look at the stars, then turned and left when they shone brightest;

The other stayed by her side through countless sleepless nights, turning every glimmer into a star.

At the celebration banquet, her awful first love, Qin Mohan, barges back into her life with his son, a diamond ring, and an apology that’s eight years late.

“Ranran, I’m divorced. This time, let me pursue you…”

Everyone tells her not to go back to an ex. Only her childhood friend, Ji Luochen, silently hands her some stomach medicine. “Whoever you choose, I’ll be there for you.”

No one knows that deep in this “all-purpose childhood friend’s” computer is a folder called “Ranran’s Stars”

A record of his long-hidden secret and every one of the 3,650 days she never looked back at him.

Then, on a stormy night, three adults and one child find themselves stranded at a guesthouse.

Qin Mohan discovers that his son is clinging to Ji Luochen and calling him “Dad”;

Ji Luochen’s diary of ten years of unrequited love is accidentally exposed;

And only then does Xu Zhiran understand:

Some love blazes like a shooting star, while some stays silent and gathers into a galaxy.

“You choose the stars. I choose you.”

"Ten years of secret love became a river; one night of starlight told it all."

“He taught me that love is like neon: dazzling, but quick to fade.”

“He showed me that being there for someone is like starlight: quiet, yet eternal.”