My Dear North Star

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Some people walk among us, yet insist on making the cold, distant North Star their faith.

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Fang Shuyan rose to fame singing songs Tan Zhibei had written just for her. In seven years, she went from a naive, inexperienced student to a dazzling young music star. This immensely talented man gave her a stage, fame and fortune, dreams, love, and heartbreak that followed her like a shadow.

At first, Fang Shuyan never tired of asking him, "Do you love me?"

Later, she stopped asking. She was always the last to hear about Tan Zhibei's newly arranged schedule, his new songs, and the new people appearing at his side, but she no longer asked. Every time, he said he loved her, yet kept her at arm's length and never truly let her into his heart.

Tan Zhibei said, "Stop being so suspicious, Yanyan. You're the only girlfriend I've ever acknowledged. I met you when I was twenty-one, and you were nineteen. I fell for you at first sight, and we've been together ever since."

Fang Shuyan gave a faint smile and calmly replied, "I know."

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Later, when Fang Shuyan asked Tan Zhibei to break up, she smiled just as faintly and calmly.

"The house, the car, and the bank passbooks can all stay with you," she said. "I'll leave with nothing and step away from the industry for a while. When everyone has forgotten me, I'll come back and start over. This is where my dream began. I'll have to return someday."

Tan Zhibei froze for a long time before asking, "Why?"

"Everything you gave me, I'll give back to you. My reputation, my status, everything I have now." Fang Shuyan looked at him. "Thank you, but I can't keep any of it."

"...You don't love me anymore?" Tan Zhibei asked with difficulty.

Fang Shuyan smiled gently. "Being a nightingale kept in a gilded cage isn't so hard to give up after all. Zhibei, it took me seven years to understand that you can't live without dignity."

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After that, Tan Zhibei disappeared for three years, vanishing from public view and never writing another song.

Just as the media had completely forgotten him, Fang Shuyan, who had mysteriously disappeared without a word three years earlier, returned to the public eye with a master's degree in film directing.

The once-popular young songstress began filming an independent movie of her own.

That evening, Tan Zhibei posted a new song on his blog, which had been silent for three years.

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The song was titled "Dear North Star."

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A second chance romance, a sweet urban love story, updated daily and reliably. Please add it to your favorites if you like it.

Talented band frontman and musician × former singer, now director

All lyrics appearing in the story are original.

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Daily updates, a healing romance between two people. Please add it to your favorites if you like it.

One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first and only, devoted love

Contact the author on Weibo: @JiangXirun

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Coming next: Give Me the Morning Star

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"Later, everyone said I was precious and dazzling, shining brightly. But this star was once trampled into the mud, waiting a long time for a miracle. At last, I rose again in the palm of your hand."

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At fifteen, Ning Yaoxi became an overnight sensation after a supporting role in a movie. Entertainment companies fought tooth and nail to sign her. Everyone said she was about to embark on a dazzling career as a star. Only Qi Yun, a fledgling agent at the time, took one look at her and said, "You're headed in the wrong direction."

Eight years later, Qi Yun had fallen out with the celebrity he managed and stirred up half the entertainment industry. Ning Yaoxi, meanwhile, had become a long-forgotten, bottom-tier actress in her late thirties, saddled with debt. Her company had made it clear they wouldn't renew her contract, and she was about to return to ordinary life.

When she stopped Qi Yun and volunteered herself as his client, he gave her a leisurely once-over and asked, "What, because I just got rid of a self-important social climber, I look like I'd sign an innocent airhead?"

"I'm not like the other stars you've managed," Ning Yaoxi said. "Five years ago, you said in an interview that your dream was to personally turn someone into the greatest star in the entertainment industry. I think that person should be me."

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Side by side, they help each other shine. The battles begin, and today she starts her journey to become a star.

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Later, after Ning Yaoxi had achieved fame and success, an interviewer asked her about her relationship with Qi Yun.

Ning Yaoxi laughed. "I'm the only person who could sell Qi Yun and still make him worry about whether I got a good price."

Qi Yun, seated beside her and infamous throughout the industry as a ruthless, domineering man whom everyone feared, kept a straight face and pretended not to hear as everyone in the studio stared at him in disbelief.

"From the day he became my agent, he became one of my own," Ning Yaoxi said. "He's my knight, and the one who understands me best."

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He cuts through every obstacle for me, and charges ahead fearlessly by my side. A brilliant future isn't complete unless I walk through it with you.

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Coming next: Sunset on a Timer

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Jiang Sitang had been doing problems until her mind went fuzzy. Despairing and suddenly emboldened, she turned to Chen Ziyu and demanded, "Tell me, how much would it take for you to transplant your brain into me? I've got plenty of money, so name your price."

Burying himself in a mountain of problems, Chen Ziyu didn't even look up. "First, we'd have to clear all the useless mush out of your head. Otherwise, there'd be nowhere to put the knowledge I transplant."

Then unless she could be remade from scratch, she was completely out of luck! Jiang Sitang groaned and banged her head against the desk in despair.

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"Chen Ziyu, we're three hundred points apart," she said. "I'm working hard, but it's too difficult, and it's too late. Every time I make a little progress, you move even farther ahead. It feels like I'll never catch up."

Chen Ziyu's pen kept moving, his voice calm. "Aren't we also three million apart? The gap is huge, and time is running out. Even when I slow down a little, I still feel like I won't make it in time."

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Ah.

Jiang Sitang shook her head. "But I don't have those three hundred points, or those three million. My family..."

"I know." Chen Ziyu interrupted her, looking down at the test paper as he spoke calmly. "But I want you to have all of it."

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One evening before study hall, when she was seventeen, Jiang Sitang lay across her desk and saw the most beautiful sunset of her life.

The slanting rays wrapped Chen Ziyu in a warm glow. He leaned toward her, carrying the future with him, as his pen blossomed across the test paper.

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Poor but brilliant top student × rich heiress and struggling student; the good kid everyone else's parents wish they had × the bad girl of the rumors

An innocent era, a slower pace, the story of a small town. Through turbulent youth, they walk hand in hand through every morning and evening.

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Theme: Love helps people become better versions of themselves.