She Finally Got Divorced

[Warm on the outside, gentle and out of touch with the real world actress x cocky, proud, easily rattled, tragic beauty and powerhouse puppy-dog] [Long-planned pursuit] [Mature woman, younger man] [Rivalry for her affections throughout!]

Wen Jingshu rose to fame young. At twenty, she won the Best Actress award while wearing her wedding ring.

Everyone said she lived like she was in a fairy tale, until she caught her husband cheating with her own eyes. Her fairy tale turned into a complete joke.

Later, her film became a hit, and the internet erupted over the topic of an older woman dating a younger man.

The paparazzi photographed them in a penthouse apartment: Qin Shuo had Wen Jingshu pinned against a floor-to-ceiling window, kissing her as the city lights blazed beyond the glass like a fallen sea of stars.

The photo was blurry, but the plain ring on the ring finger of his left hand, matching hers, was unmistakable.

*

The first time Qin Shuo met Wen Jingshu, he was sixteen, alone and helpless, wearing a vest with a hem that came up short.

She was dressed in expensive finery. With a gentle smile, she said, "I still have a few apartments in my name. Pick one and move in by yourself."

Their relationship could hardly have been more distant. She offered him only a casual, half-hearted kindness, never knowing that she would become his obsession for the next ten years.

At last, the facade shattered. In a dim prop room, she was pinned into a corner, and the boy who had grown into a man no longer called her "sis."

"Wen Jingshu, play with me. I'm more fun than any of them."

"Wen Jingshu, you can't get rid of me."

Everyone on set said Qin Shuo was a genius newcomer, with great acting skills and a willingness to work hard.

Only Wen Jingshu knew how feverishly this boy, fourteen years younger than her, looked at her.

*

After an accident, Wen Jingshu regretted her own carelessness and took a business card from her bag. "You worked hard yesterday. You're a newcomer, so you must really need this."

A certain director's business card was the best opportunity she could think of giving a man.

His hand trembled as he held the card. "Wen Jingshu, I'm not the penniless kid I was back then. Keeping me will cost you."

Content warnings:

1. Older woman, younger man; she is fourteen years older.

2. The female lead has a child of her own and loves children.

3. After her divorce, the female lead has romantic relationships with people other than the male lead.

4. The protagonists are flawed, each in their own way.

5. Four male characters have explicit one-sided crushes.

Theme: Perseverance