A calculating, obsessive, one-sided-love pursuer x a gentle, perceptive, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside recipient
Two male leads, original setting, oC novel
Shi Yanli is an all-around top-tier star, a national superstar famed for both his looks and talent. He commands the stage, but offstage he’s an arrogant, endearingly contradictory character. His fans call him “Inkstone.” His personal cameraman, Shi Moshu, is an independent documentary photographer known in the industry as a “poet of light and shadow.” Cool and reserved, he excels at capturing subtle emotions through his lens.
Their “mortal enemy” in the industry, Lin Qichao, is a top-tier male star who began his career as a child actor. He appears cold and abstinent on camera, but is sharp-tongued and haughty in private. His personal director, Sang Qize, is a gentle, reserved young genius, so obsessed with art that it borders on madness.
There are also the mysterious bestselling author Mu Chunye, the reclusive Gu doctor Zhu Junfan, the spirit medium Shuo Xiyue, and others. Each stands out in their own field, together forming a colorful portrait of life in this strange and dazzling city.
As the fog thickens, beyond the camera’s lens lies a forbidden love more passionate than anything onstage.
