When Liu Yiyi accepts Shen Que’s advances, she knows she’s a stand-in.
His gaze always goes unfocused when he looks at her, as though he’s seeing someone else through her. He never touches the mole at the corner of her left eye: it belongs to his “dream girl.” They each get what they need, and she’s perfectly happy with the arrangement.
Until she discovers that a woman named Song Qingyi looks exactly like her in profile.
But Song Qingyi tells her that when Shen Que gets drunk, the name he calls out is never “Qingyi.”
A letter from ten years ago, an old photograph with writing on the back, a crush misread throughout their youth.
Liu Yiyi thinks she’s the stand-in. What she doesn’t know is:
From beginning to end, she was the one he truly saw.