[Cold, roguish top-tier star actor x gentle, warm-hearted genius director]
[Reunion after years apart / Unrequited love becomes mutual / Marriage first, love later]
Blurb:
Before Zheng Yitong married Jiang Yang, they had crossed paths only three times, all at community-organized variety shows.
A devoted movie buff, Zheng Yitong had high hopes for Jiang Yang, whose acting was superb. "If you ever enter the entertainment industry, you'll absolutely become an award-winning actor."
Jiang Yang did indeed win an award for best actor, becoming one of the entertainment industry's leading young stars.
They crossed paths again at a matchmaking dinner arranged by their elderly neighbor. When Zheng Yitong hurried over, Jiang Yang was talking to the old woman. He glanced her way and said, "As long as you're happy with her, Grandma."
Three days later, Zheng Yitong and Jiang Yang secretly registered their marriage.
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Later, Jiang Yang appeared as a guest on the variety show Zheng Yitong directed.
During a truth-or-dare segment, a guest turned the gossip toward Zheng Yitong and asked if she'd ever pursued a guy.
Zheng Yitong answered honestly, "Yes."
Jiang Yang raised an eyebrow and pressed her. "How did you pursue him?"
Zheng Yitong replied, "I wrote him a hundred letters."
That night, Jiang Yang pinned Zheng Yitong to the bed and claimed her again and again. When they were close to the end, he bit her lip and asked in a husky voice, "You wrote him a hundred letters. Then what happened?"
Zheng Yitong trembled in his arms, tears falling.
-Only then did she learn that the person she'd been in love with had moved away long ago.
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Not long afterward, Pingqiao Alley was slated for demolition. Jiang Yang went back to clear out the last of his things, and a neighbor gave him a cardboard box.
Inside were more than a hundred letters. On a sweltering summer afternoon, he read them one by one. The last was from five years ago, written in the girl's graceful, firm hand: Maybe one day, you'll truly see me.
*In this grand, unrequited love, she was the only one onstage, gazing up at him in silence and devotion.
*Then he stepped down from his pedestal.
Theme: Unrequited love is one person's affair
