Saving the Top-Tier Star Is Everyone's Responsibility [Entertainment Industry]

(Scheduled to open in 2027/2028; the full manuscript is already finished)

Qu Ning has a childhood friend named Meng Yu, who is also her neighbor.

Meng Yu is always dreaming of going to Lichuan to pursue a career in music.

Lichuan winters are too cold,

and they drag on like a cassette tape that never stops playing.

But Lichuan gets heavy snow in winter,

just like Wuqishi, where the two of them grew up.

So snowy scenery is what Qu Ning and Meng Yu always draw together on their collaborative drawing app,

every year without fail.

It is Meng Yu's way of apologizing for not sticking with Qu Ning and becoming a comic artist together.

Qu Ning is a comic artist, one diagnosed with ALS.

Relying on fingers that are gradually failing her,

she finishes the last panel of a snowy scene one day

and receives a new cassette Meng Yu recorded for her.

Meng Yu became famous in Lichuan and sang dreams heard by millions,

but he never finished singing that one song of hers.

The news of his fall from a building aired

on the seventh day after her condition worsened.

Only after he died did she learn how much injustice he had suffered.

Early in his career, he was constrained by the industry's rules.

Resources were handed out like bets at a gambling table, and he wasn't the winner.

The moment he signed his contract, he was sidelined and dismissed.

His voice and face were deliberately suppressed.

Recording sessions were delayed or canceled time and again.

His creative work was frozen at different points in time, leaving nothing but gaps.

Still, he had to smile and sing, keeping the fans' letters and love close to his heart.

Later, Qu Ning received a temporary rebirth System.

Whenever she played one of the old tapes, she could return

to fifteen days in that year and become someone else:

a drummer passing by with the band, a passerby at a subway entrance,

a recording engineer, a stage lighting technician...

She became countless different people and met him again and again,

all to stop the fall that was fated to take his life.

She was reborn time after time, not to change the ending of their love,

but to give him the chance to keep singing.

The wind doesn't blow in the direction of home,

but as long as she is still here, he can hear everyone

singing in the wind, saying we're all still here.

Reader's Guide:

1. The story takes place in a fictional city in Huaxia. It is entirely fictional, and any resemblance is coincidental. So, coincidence is just coincidence. Don't ask too much; just read.

2. Please don't assume the characters are based on real people. If you ask, all I can say is that there are no real-life inspirations. It's entirely fictional! Fictional! Fictional! But if you do make your own associations, you don't need to tell me. I can't control any thoughts outside my own head!

Theme: The road home is not a long one