[Show-stealing celebrity puppy × sunny, straightforward loyal puppy]
Everyone in the Chinese entertainment industry knows Cheng Xingye and Yan Yu are “oil and water.”
Onstage, they’re galaxies apart; in interviews, they’re stiff and distant.
But no one knows that five years ago, during a heavy snowfall in Beixun, Yan Yu’s film camera was full of Cheng Xingye’s smiling face, until an accident forcibly drove them apart.
Five years later, they meet again. One is a top-tier show-stealer, the other a gentle, artsy man.
On set, they’re polite and distant. Behind the cameras, Yan Yu casually picks the cilantro out of his bowl.
Then a variety show takes them back to Beixun, and Cheng Xingye accidentally falls into a snowdrift.
Yan Yu, usually so gentle and reserved, finally loses it. In front of the entire internet, he pulls Cheng Xingye into his arms, warming his frozen face in his palms as he asks, voice soft and anxious, “Was that fun? What if you catch a cold? Put your hands in here!”
The entire internet crashes: “You call that not being close? You two have clearly been dating for five lifetimes!”
[Reader’s Guide / Content Notes]
1. Entertainment industry / rekindled romance / reunion after years apart / publicly funded dating.
2. Bittersweet tension early on, with flashbacks; hilarious, sweet romance later, with plenty of secret identities exposed. One-on-one romance, happy ending.
3. The show within the story is not based on real people. All characters are fictional and have no real-life counterparts. Please don’t read this as referring to anyone in the real world.
