/Proud but honest/ Sweet-cool, deceptively black-hearted/ Intellectual older sister/
vs. naturally goofy younger girl
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With two months left on her contract before she's due to return to civilian life, Ji Qingyao unexpectedly becomes famous.
Online, people say she's just lucky. Her labelmate Zhong Yuyin made a name for herself in one fell swoop on a music variety show, and the only TV drama Ji Qingyao ever appeared in is now being obsessively revisited by fans. As it happens, she was the only one who ever played Zhong Yuyin's love interest, and that's how the public got a chance to notice her.
Unable to terminate her contract with the company, Ji Qingyao is also assigned to fake a couple with Zhong Yuyin for publicity.
Of course Ji Qingyao doesn't want to. Zhong Yuyin is sharp-tongued and cutting, just like the way the real person talks to her fans. If Ji Qingyao agrees to the fake relationship today, Zhong Yuyin's fans will have her driven out of the entertainment world tomorrow. No, tonight. And with Zhong Yuyin's habit of isolating everyone, she definitely won't agree either.
But wouldn't you know it, Zhong Yuyin agrees. She even moves into the apartment the company arranged, right across the hall from Ji Qingyao, supposedly to build hype for their fake relationship.
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The fact that top-tier star Zhao Xie'an is aggressively pursuing Ji Qingyao, who only recently escaped being a flop, is an open secret in the industry.
Even though Ji Qingyao has clearly turned Zhao Xie'an down twice, Zhao Xie'an keeps after her, chasing her from variety shows to filming locations and announcing to the world that Zhao Xie'an belongs with Ji Qingyao.
Nobody knows if Zhong Yuyin really likes Ji Qingyao, but everyone is convinced that Zhao Xie'an does. Even Ji Qingyao herself is being so thoroughly charmed by this girl four years her junior that her resolve is starting to waver.
Whenever that happens, Zhong Yuyin doesn't hesitate to throw cold water on her. She is even more vicious toward Zhao Xie'an.
Ji Qingyao can never figure it out. They're supposed to be fake rivals in love, so why are they really fighting?
Zhao Xie'an: younger woman / scheming / pursues love, then faces a reckoning
Zhong Yuyin: younger woman / proud / will they get back together after their breakup?
Jiang Yizhuo: older woman / healing
1v1 happy ending.
Theme: Success in both career and love
