Dream Not of Cold Nights [Entertainment Industry]

Coming next: "The Sunset Falls into an Orange Sea [Second Chance Romance]," "My First Love Came Back from the Dead," and "The Puppy Says You're the Culprit." Please follow them in advance! [Laid-back actress who wants to retire at thirty x aloof, but not that aloof, university professor] Gu Jin Xiao, the youngest professor in Ming University’s mathematics department, is aloof and distant, disciplined and restrained, and an untouchable beauty on a high peak. Qu Menghan, who unexpectedly became famous as Ming University's campus belle, returns to her alma mater to film a drama. She sees a math problem on the blackboard and solves it on a whim, only to get stuck at the final step. Just as she's lamenting that she has lost the glory she once enjoyed as the top student in the mathematics department, a man who seems to have descended from the heavens walks over and solves it with ease. Qu Menghan: Are extras so competitive these days? They have to be handsome and know how to solve math problems? Gu Jin Xiao: Didn't they say that being able to solve a quadratic equation makes you a scholar in show business? How does she know how to solve the brachistochrone problem? * Gu Jin Xiao's grandmother becomes a fan of Qu Menghan after watching her drama, saying the girl looks so sweet. When Gu Jin Xiao goes to get an autograph, she catches Qu Menghan giving her a knowing look. Qu Menghan even thoughtfully leaves her WeChat ID in the corner. That evening, she receives a friend request. The WeChat name is "Peace and Health," and both the profile picture and cover image are Guanyin Bodhisattva. It really is Grandma. After a lively chat, Qu Menghan asks all sorts of questions about Gu Jin Xiao. When she asks whether her grandson has a girlfriend, she gets a message: [Don't casually pry into other people's private lives.] * After adding Gu Jin Xiao on WeChat, Qu Menghan accidentally sends her a silly math meme: [If you like me, type 1. If you don't, type the limit as x approaches 0 of sin(sinx)/sin(arctanx) raised to the power 1/(1-cosx).] Gu Jin Xiao: [e to the power of 1/3] Feeling rather indignant, Qu Menghan sends another meme: a forty-meter-long sword, with permission to run thirty-nine meters first. After careful calculation, Gu Jin Xiao concludes: [Not thirty-nine meters. It's 35.8022 meters.] Qu Menghan: Professor Gu, do you have any manners? * Gu Jin Xiao visits Qu Menghan on set, only to arrive during a kissing scene. She watches the whole thing with a dark expression. "It's work. How can you be jealous?" "It's a romance drama, of course there are kissing scenes." Qu Menghan tries everything she can think of, but can't soothe Professor Gu, who's fallen into a vat of jealousy. "Then how are you going to make it up to me?" Gu Jin Xiao pulls her into her arms, looking pitiful. That night, Qu Menghan gets kissed so much that the director asks her the next day whether she's allergic to something around her mouth. Blurb for "The Sunset Falls into an Orange Sea [Second Chance Romance]" [Gentle, resilient genius physics professor x arrogant, devoted CEO, second chance romance, bittersweet tension, love rivals] He Yan, the most handsome student in the finance department at Jingbei University, is a rich playboy, carefree and flamboyant. Meanwhile, Xu Xicheng, top student in the physics department, is a model student who follows the rules and spends all her time studying in the library. At a party one day, everyone gets drunk. Thinking He Yan has fallen asleep, Xu Xicheng is inexplicably tempted to end her hopeless crush with a kiss. But just as her lips are about to touch his cheek, the man pretending to sleep suddenly turns his head, and their lips meet perfectly. He Yan gazes at the girl whose cheeks have turned red, amusement in his dark eyes growing stronger. "How about giving us a try?" The story that follows, setting aside its ending, is enough to make up for all the pain and sorrow in the world. But what story can really leave its ending aside? She was the one who suggested they break up. That arrogant, unruly man stood in the rain all night. * They reunite seven years later at a science and technology gala. Xu Xicheng is now the youngest associate professor in the physics department at Jingbei University. He Yan has rehearsed countless versions of their reunion. He would put the person who abandoned him in her place, act cold enough, and make her regret it. But all those feelings collapse the instant he sees an ill-fitting coat draped over Xu Xicheng's shoulders. At the banquet, He Yan stops her. His fathomless gaze seems ready to devour her. "What is your relationship with him?" But her reply is even more decisive than it was that rainy night: "What does that have to do with you, Mr. He?" Seven years really is a long time, long enough to forget someone with ease. But how could it be long enough for her to stop loving him? * They say the one who falls in love first loses, but He Yan is certain that he was the one who lost completely from the very beginning. He admits defeat. He surrenders. As long as Xu Xicheng will look back at him, he'll do anything. He's no worse than the men around her. So why won't she give him even one chance? "Xu Xicheng, is your heart made of stone?" "I suppose it is." "Then why can they all do it, but I can't?" Xu Xicheng lowers her eyes and answers with silence. He Yan, no longer in control of himself, grabs both her wrists and kisses her despite her struggle, until the taste of blood between their lips is washed away by salty tears. He comes to his senses and pulls her tightly into his arms, apologizing again and again. "Don't cry, little Orange. Don't cry. It was my fault. I'm sorry..." But the person sobbing in his arms manages to say, haltingly, "A Yan... let's stop..." * It's absurd for physicists to talk about fate. But Xu Xicheng still believes that the instant the singularity appeared, everything was already destined. Yet even the Christ the Redeemer at the peak of Corcovado might not be able to foresee all of fate. How could she, living in this earthly world, know which way the next breeze would blow? What's all this mumbo jumbo? I want to kiss you. Unable to follow He Yan decides to fight magic with magic, leaning in to kiss her. "Why think so much? You only need to know that someone named He Yan loves you more than anyone else in the world." Theme: Move forward bravely.