On This Spring Night

[Coming Soon: Starlight's End]

At first, whenever he wasn't home, she would toss and turn, unable to sleep.

Later, whenever he came home, she would toss and turn, unable to sleep.

*

Throughout her teenage years, Lai Ya had a secret.

That secret was named Gu Yu.

He was a law student two years ahead of her, always dazzling and commanding the room whenever he spoke from the podium.

After graduation, lost in a sea of people, she thought that little spark of starlight had long since sunk to the bottom of her memories, never to stir again.

Until, at a matchmaking dinner, the introducer was saying, "The other party is an excellent match, just a little busy," when Lai Ya looked up and saw the figure almost etched into her memory.

Gu Yu.

Impeccably dressed in a suit, his gaze behind gold-rimmed glasses as calm as ever.

*

Three days later, they registered their marriage.

In the photo against the red backdrop, Gu Yu's expression was calm, while Lai Ya's smile was a little stiff.

Looking at the marriage certificate, Lai Ya felt as if she were holding a time bomb, or a dream far too extravagant to be true.

Their married life was like a silent film running on a preset program. Gu Yu was busy with work, and Lai Ya had her own design career.

Until that rainy night.

Gu Yu came home late. Only a small lamp was lit in the living room, and Lai Ya was curled up asleep on the sofa, still clutching the proofs she had only half finished reading.

Her arm unconsciously wound around his neck, and she nuzzled his shoulder sleepily, mumbling a complaint thick with drowsiness: "Do we have to fulfill our marital duties again tonight?"

*

In the darkness, he asked her, "Do you have no sense of direction at all?"

Blushing, she nodded softly.

When they first met, she had been pushing a pile of luggage around, unable to find her way.

But how could he still remember that?

She thought she was the only one who had remembered, all this time.

That was all the starlight of her first love.

The most unexpected upheaval in an ordinary marriage, and the happiness she now held securely in her arms.

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Coming Soon: Starlight's End

Calling in a favor from a longtime friend, Zhou Yan had no choice but to take He Ye under her wing.

He was the hardest male celebrity she had ever managed, bar none: a star's son, an acting fanatic, a lunatic...

At their first meeting, he leaned back in his chair during the meeting, barely lifting his eyelids as he gave her a lazy sidelong glance. He refused to call her "Sister Zhou."

*

After filming wrapped, everyone gathered in a private room to celebrate and egged one another on to drink.

Zhou Yan didn't like crowds. Taking advantage of the commotion, she slipped out early. As she reached a corner of the hallway, a hand suddenly shot out of the darkness and yanked her over.

He bent close to her earlobe, his breath hot as fire. "Everyone in there is watching me. You're the only one looking down at your phone. Zhou Yan, what's on it, anyway?"

She never expected a young man's love to burn so fiercely, to know no boundaries and care nothing for consequences, striking again and again at the heart she refused to open.

You are the end of my starlight,

and I never planned to come ashore.

Theme: Happiness is hidden in the ordinary moments of life.