The Korean Entertainment Road: Together Toward the Blossoming Flowers

[A powerful couple: the male and female leads are soulmates who understand each other’s thoughts and share the same passion for music.

The story generally follows the real-world timeline and features many people from the Korean entertainment industry. The author isn’t familiar with every single person, though, so please forgive any differences between a character’s personality here and the real person’s, especially if it’s someone you’re a fan of.

The male lead appears very little at first, and the romance develops slowly.]

In 1997, Li Jingrun entered a company with a dream. After seven years of training, she finally debuted as a solo singer. From then on, legends about her spread throughout SM, and she became the company’s only female singer-songwriter and all-rounder since its founding.

At the time, the Korean Wave was surging. She climbed step by step toward becoming a top-tier star, while he was caught up in a scandal involving the ugliest boy band.

As he watched Li Jingrun shine brighter and brighter, feelings of inferiority and anxiety would well up inside him. Sometimes he wondered whether she still remembered the days they trained together. If he hadn’t left SM, perhaps he would have had someone to confide in when he felt lost.

At first, it was just an obsession. Later, without him realizing when it happened, it became a source of joy and motivation. He buried himself in songwriting and finally made his comeback. At the year-end music awards, he and she stood side by side onstage, gazing at each other from across the crowd.

As fate would have it, we met at the summit.