The deal of each taking what he needs ties up Jiang Nian, a top student who lives alone in poverty, and Ye Huai, a rebellious and unruly rich man. He needs her to pretend to be his girlfriend to resist family marriage; she needs the remuneration he pays to maintain a difficult livelihood. The two agreed to have clear boundaries, give priority to their studies, and break up after the play.
In the beginning, it was just a tacit performance. She puts on a professional fake smile and cooperates with all his high-profile "official announcements"; he pays to do things, hiding unfathomable alienation under the cover of laziness. Until the storm of public opinion on campus and the pressure and slaps from her family, she calmly dealt with it and put herself in danger; he lost control of his rage and almost killed someone for her. The hug and the words "You're here" in the bloodstained warehouse made the solid shell of the agreement shatter into pieces.
I like you, can't you tell?
Underneath the fake show, true love grows wildly. He sees through the lone-wolf stubbornness beneath her soft exterior, and she touches the broken loneliness behind his cynicism. He carried her up onto the Changqing Tree and tied the ribbon around it, and she stood up for him at the Hongmen Banquet. The words "I have to pay more" draw a line of sadness, and the word "boyfriend" makes everything collapse.
The story of disguise and reality, cage and freedom, and how two young people who seem to be at opposite ends of the world turn from "complicit" to each other's only salvation.
Concept: modern campus romance