Mr. Jiang, Can You Keep Your Partner in Line?

[Two Male Leads + Mutual Pining + A Touch of Bittersweetness + Kept Lover + Second Chance at Love + Happy Ending]

Seven years ago, Cheng Chi told a lie.

“I like the girl in the class next door.”

For the next seven years, Jiang Yue never replied to another one of his messages.

Seven years later, Cheng Chi was at the end of his rope. His studio was on the verge of closing, dozens of employees needed their wages, and bills demanding payment piled up like a mountain. He pushed open the door to a private room.

Jiang Yue was sitting inside.

He had waited seven years for this man to come back. And what he got was Cheng Chi offering himself up to someone else as part of a contract.

“Seven years apart, and you’ve fallen this far?”

The next day, a financing contract was placed in front of Cheng Chi. It contained just one clause: “During the term of this contract, Party B may not refuse any personal or business-related accompaniment requested by Party A.”

Cheng Chi thought it was a humiliation. Jiang Yue thought it was a transaction.

But Jiang Yue stayed by his hospital bed all night. On set, he used a memory from seven years ago to bring Cheng Chi into character in an instant. Standing at Cheng Chi’s front door, his coat collar billowing in the wind, Jiang Yue said, “Don’t run away again.”

Cheng Chi began to wonder

Was the contract really about control, or was it the confession he’d missed for seven years?

Then he discovered that seven years ago, in the airport waiting lounge, Jiang Yue had crumpled a plane ticket in his hand, then smoothed it flat again.

It turned out that, that summer, they had both been waiting for the other to speak first.

Neither of them ever did.