Lu Yining is a dazzling new star who shines freely on the musical theater stage, while Yu Zhi is just one of his many little assistants, hidden behind the curtain.
No one knows Yu Zhi likes him.
Her secret crush began many years ago, when Lu Yining tossed her his bouquet after opening night. It has stretched on like an endless summer.
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There is never a shortage of beautiful people around Lu Yining. Yu Zhi simply follows him in silence, arranging a companion for each of his appearances.
Until one day, the woman invited to accompany him fails to show up.
Lu Yining says offhandedly, "Then you can come with me today."
Yu Zhi silently nods.
She thinks it will probably be just like all those years ago.
She can only ever have the bouquet Lu Yining wants to throw away.
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Yu Zhi quits.
It should have been an ordinary personnel change, but for the first time, her supervisor sees Lu Yining lose his temper so badly.
Snow shuts down the mountain roads. He walks more than a hundred miles through the night over ice before finding Yu Zhi in a remote town, a thousand kilometers from the final performance venue.
She smiles faintly. "Is your new assistant incompetent? Shouldn't you be somewhere else?"
With bloodshot eyes, Lu Yining grits his teeth and asks, "Then when are you coming back?"
"It's too cold." Yu Zhi looks at the falling snow and says with a smile, "Come back in the summer."
/You know I have no pride at all when I'm with you. But we can only meet if you want to see me, too./
-- Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Nelson Algren
[Reckless and Arrogant x Stubborn and Gentle]
* Playboy reforms / Secret crush comes true
Theme: Love is ordinary and tumultuous
