[Male Lead Secretly Loves Female Lead x Older Woman-Younger Man Romance]
Back in her senior year of high school, Jiang Muyú had heard that there was a handsome junior in his first year, who had not only become the school's newest heartthrob but also ranked first in every subject, threatening to beat her own undefeated record.
Jiang Muyú hadn't thought much of it.
It wasn't until one day, when the junior returned the glasses she'd left behind in the library, that she began to believe the rumors a little.
He was kind of handsome.
But before long, the junior vanished from school without a trace.
Jiang Muyú saw him again in a secluded corner backstage at an event.
The man had shed the awkwardness of youth. His brows were sharply defined, a beauty mark sat at the corner of his eye, and his whole bearing was cold, proud, and unruly.
He rose from a dented cardboard box, picked up the jacket that had been trampled on the ground, brushed off the dust, then wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand. His eyes were indifferent as he walked past her.
"Pei Jiashang?"
As they passed, Jiang Muyú turned and called after him, narrowing her eyes in uncertainty.
The man stopped. Three seconds later, he said, "No," in a distant, detached voice, cold and merciless.
But Jiang Muyú saw his eyes turn suddenly red in the reflection of a shattered mirror leaning against the wall in the distance.
A story about a young wolf-dog who secretly longs for and covets a rich young lady, but is trapped by the gulf between their statuses, growing more and more helplessly infatuated even as he feels inferior to her.
The original idea: I wanted to write a male lead who is truly poor and down on his luck.
The setup is a female CEO x a low-profile male actor. The male lead has always secretly loved the female lead, who is his unattainable ideal, the faith he pursues in every sense. He always keeps himself virtuous.
Theme: The spirit remains unbowed
