Her Taste

Xi Ran is a second-tier novelist who pays her rent by writing. Cheng Shengyao is a rising second-tier star living in the spotlight, just one good script away from becoming a top-tier star.

They are like two parallel lines, destined never to cross, until she is abandoned by a crooked tour guide on Shi'er Mountain and meets him on his way to pay respects to his older brother.

He discovers that she has a unique scent only he can smell, one that intoxicates him and makes him unable to resist getting closer. He can't help wanting to breathe in more of her scent, more of her essence.

But Xi Ran thinks he's a sleazy scumbag who plays with people's feelings. At a bar, she shouts at him, "Are you sick or something? I know the entertainment industry is a mess, but I'm not part of it. If you really can't control yourself, go find one of your fans!"

Only when Xi Ran learns that he was the one who saved her on Shi'er Mountain that night, and when she is cornered in a cramped restroom and Cheng Shengyao murmurs with the most tender voice in the world, "My love for you isn't decided by my thoughts. It's decided by my genes, by my soul," does she realize just how deeply he loves her.

Later, Cheng Shengyao becomes a top-tier star. As he gives his acceptance speech, he tells the camera what he has never said aloud:

"Xi Ran, you aren't some passerby who wandered into my world by chance. You're the one and only cure fate gave me. If you won't come into my world, then I'll give up my world and come find you."

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Second-rate actor x second-rate author

Three-year age gap, younger man | Hormones | Pheromones | Scent attraction | Instinctive love

Content warnings: The female lead smokes. The male lead is a virgin, but the female lead isn't. The female lead has a very close male friend.