Lost in the Moonlight

Aloof, distant movie emperor × gentle, steadfast screenwriter

Unrequited love becomes mutual | Slow burn | He chases her after she leaves

(1)

After devoting herself to writing for two years, Nan Li completed the screenplay for Glory. She had considered many people for the male lead, but never Ji Changqing.

A three-time Golden Award-winning actor, he was already covered in glory. Why would he be interested in a low-budget production?

But he came.

(2)

Few people knew that Nan Li had once liked Ji Changqing for ten years.

When this unexpected collaboration brought them together, a friend tried to sound Nan Li out about her feelings for him.

She only said that Ji Changqing was professional and a superb actor.

When asked if she felt anything more, all she could say was that she had stopped liking him long ago.

(3)

As filming went on, Nan Li admitted that when she said she didn't like him, what she really meant was that she still liked him very much.

Ji Changqing himself seemed like a cup of warm water: mild and easygoing, always gracious and considerate with everyone. But Nan Li knew how aloof and distant he was deep down.

The film took more than two months to shoot. She never managed to reach his heart, and instead lived out a dream she was destined to wake from.

(4)

They met again six months later, by the hotel elevators.

Nan Li had just missed the elevator and was regretting it.

The doors closed, then opened again. Ji Changqing looked at her with a gaze full of unwavering intensity.

Nan Li froze for a moment, surprise flickering in her eyes.

She had thought he wouldn't want to see her again. After all, their last meeting hadn't ended well.

Of course, she had no idea that he had deliberately arranged this encounter.

At first, he was everyone's moon, and I was happy just to be lost in his moonlight.

But one day, he told me that I was his moon.

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1. To save her brother's faltering romance, Shu Yao seeks out Zhou Zexu and asks him to turn down her brother's goddess's advances.

He readily agrees, but pointedly adds that he won't do it for free.

Shu Yao looks at him several times before finally understanding what he means.

On the way to the hotel, she can't help thinking that he's changed. The old Zhou Zexu would have helped someone for free.

2. Once the crisis is over, Shu Yao wants to end her improper relationship with Zhou Zexu.

This time, he doesn't agree so readily.

Shu Yao only has to look at him once to understand what he means.

He's gotten a taste for it and doesn't want to let go.

3. Shu Yao and Zhou Zexu were classmates in high school, but they barely knew each other.

So she never knew that Zhou Zexu would give up an early university admission just to attend the same school as her, secretly keep track of all the little things about her, and glance at her out of the corner of his eye countless times.

Later, through a twist of fate, they still didn't end up at the same school. As soon as high school was over, they lost touch completely.

No one knew how much Zhou Zexu missed her during those six years without the slightest news of Shu Yao, alone in a foreign country, in the quiet hours when no one was around.

So when they met again, she was his goal. She had been from the very beginning.

Theme: Strive to stand on your own and pursue what you love