Song Rao spent two years working as a follow-cam operator, accustomed to hiding behind the lens.
Until she was assigned to film Gu Zhilan, the most difficult movie star to work with.
The show required her to follow him around twenty-four hours a day.
On camera, he smiled warmly at the female guests.
Off camera, he brought her water from his hometown, shielded her from steep slopes, and helped her across gravel paths.
On the fourth night, the drunken man pinned her in the equipment room and whispered to the switched-off camera, "Got enough footage? It's time to film me kissing you."
She thought he'd been talking nonsense because he was drunk.
That was until she opened the raw footage. Every time he smiled at a female guest, his eyes were searching for her behind the camera.
In an unused clip, he held her employee badge and repeated her name seventeen times.
The director pressured her to personally edit together sweet CP moments of the movie star and his rumored partner.
The female guest set one trap after another.
Her former mentor returned.
The whole internet shipped a fake couple, but only she knew that she was always the one reflected in his pupils.
At the recording of the finale, every camera's red light came on.
Gu Zhilan snatched her camera. "This time, I'll film you."
How long had the young man she'd filmed for seventeen days eight years ago been waiting for her?
