Clear-Headed, Rational Terminally Ill Female Editor x Warm on the Outside, Cold Within Popular Male Star
In the twenty-seven years of Xi Gong's life, Zhang Mingqian was truly there for only two of them.
For the other fifteen, he was an illusion who appeared in her dreams.
After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, she returned to the grasslands where they had first met, intending to quietly bury all her dreams. Instead, she encountered the real him: now a red-hot singer with a cold, sharp gaze, he mistook her for the obsessive fan who had been harassing him for years.
"You can even accurately analyze my unreleased experimental songs. Xi Gong, what are you really after with this perfectly staged chance encounter?"
She looked up, her expression unruffled. "I want to use your fame to promote grassland culture."
He sneered and roped her into a new folk music project. He called it collaboration, but it was really a carefully planned test, one step at a time.
He pushed forward; she held her ground.
He pressed her like a man playing with fire. "Have you ever dreamed about me?" She took half a step back and calmly denied it. "No."
He watched her calmly gather material for the project, while the lyrics she wrote struck straight at the loneliest wilderness of his soul.
The more suspicious he became, the more he was drawn in. The harder he tried to break free, the deeper he fell.
Until a fire burned away every disguise.
She put herself on the line to draw out his long-missing brother. Once all their true feelings came to light, she collapsed in the ashes.
"Was it fun while it lasted? Are you going to leave me now?" he said, eyes bloodshot as he stood beside her hospital bed, his pride shattered.
Only then did fate reveal its final card:
Her "dreams" of fifteen years had all been of his twin brother.
He thought he was the hunter.
He had no idea that he didn't even qualify as prey in her dreams.
Happy Ending
