The Seventh Scene of My Heart Beating for You

Her last relationship had drained her of every romantic fantasy and left her with no inspiration for writing the “perfect male lead.”

Zhao Liying, a screenwriter who locked every flutter of her heart away in computer files, decided she'd spend the rest of her life in love with scripts alone.

Until Lin Gengxin, an obscure actor mocked online as someone who was being pushed hard but could never make it, pointed to the seventh scene of her script and asked seriously:

“Screenwriter, why is the protagonist here afraid to admit he's fallen for someone?”

He was the least promising male lead she'd ever written, and the only person who understood every unspoken meaning behind her words.

Late at night on set, he stayed with her to revise the script, trading coffee for warm milk. “Your story deserves to be treated gently.”

When rumors spread everywhere, he stood in front of her and faced the media with a cold expression for the first time. “If you've got a problem, take it up with me. Leave my screenwriter alone.”

She thought they were simply helping each other succeed professionally.

Until backstage at the awards ceremony, he placed the Best Actor trophy in her arms, his voice trembling:

“I've played out everyone else's joys and sorrows. Zhao Liying, could you... teach me how to play us, just once?”

Later, everyone in the industry knew:

If you wanted to hire award-winning screenwriter Zhao Liying, your male lead had to be Lin Gengxin.

If you wanted to cast talented actor Lin Gengxin, your script had to win Zhao Liying's approval.

They went from being “wrong for each other” to the industry's most irreplaceable “perfect match.”

When the shadows of the past returned, he clasped her hand. “This time, we'll follow our own script.”

No games, no suspicion, no letting each other down.

The world may be noisy, but their seventh scene belongs only to two hearts, slowly drawing closer, their clear echoes beating in perfect rhythm.