A Secret Addiction [Entertainment Industry]

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Cool, alluring classical dance goddess × quiet, reserved artifact conservator

A-list star × water-town girl

1,

Nan Xiaoxue is the classical dance goddess no one in the entertainment industry dares dream of. She became a principal dancer at eighteen, and has devoted herself entirely to the stage ever since, keeping to herself.

An Chang is an unremarkable artifact conservator in a Jiangnan water town. She earns a mere two thousand yuan a month and walks the old stone-paved roads every day, passing narrow canals where black-awning boats drift by.

The damp, clinging rain.

A secret kiss beneath a bamboo lantern.

An unspoken tenderness on a carved wooden bed.

And yet it was An Chang, the most ordinary and unremarkable person, who shared an entire plum-rain season of passion with the dazzling Nan Xiaoxue.

2,

Nan Xiaoxue is extraordinarily gifted, outshining every other actress. But those who know her understand that she is proud of her talent, arrogant and cold.

Her staged romance with an ordinary girl from a water town was meant only to help her get into character for the role of a “demon” in a live-action dance drama. Their enchanting story should have stayed in that rippling water town.

But after returning to Beicheng, Nan, the goddess, rested her chin on her icy, flawless hand and kept thinking of a girl in that water town, with tender arms like fresh lotus shoots at the start of summer, crisp and sweet as though filled with fresh juice.

Nan narrowed her eyes. Perhaps she really had become a demon after all.

She wanted to bite someone, a quiet but sweet girl from a water town.

"A story in a water-town village, the one you miss most on rainy days."

* A 30-year-old A-list star and a 25-year-old artifact conservator. Happy ending.

* The characters are not based on real people. Professional details were researched online.

* Author’s Weibo: @Gu Laiyi

Coming soon: A Single Thought Sets the Wildfire:

Jaded, taciturn bomb disposal specialist × cool on the outside, teasing doctor

1,

Xin Qiao first met Zhou Kunyu at a private club.

She entered the restroom in her bomb disposal gear and saw a woman curled up in the corner, a bomb strapped around her waist. Her clear, luminous eyes were strangely calm.

A line of poetry from her middle-school classes came to Xin Qiao’s mind: “The deer call out, grazing on the duckweed in the wild.”

So women like this really did exist: as lovely as poetry, so dignified and composed.

2,

They met again at Zhou Kunyu’s villa.

Xin Qiao had just finished fighting some street thugs. In a misshapen old T-shirt, with blood welling from a cut on her brow, she looked at the villa’s bathroom with brazen disbelief. It was bigger than the entire old house she shared with her younger sister.

Zhou Kunyu approached with a cotton ball, but Xin Qiao dodged her. “Sorry, I’m prejudiced against the rich.”

“Perfect.” Zhou Kunyu set the cotton ball down, smiling softly.

The hospital’s much-admired associate chief physician by day leaned close to the artery in her neck and breathed against it. “I wasn’t planning to repay Captain Xin for saving my life with money, either.”

Watching Xin Qiao leap away as if burned, Zhou Kunyu smiled with keen interest.

3,

Only Xin Qiao knew

Beneath Zhou Kunyu’s most proper exterior lay a desire like wildfire.

"Though the thorns may blaze, my first love remains unchanged.

Zhou Kunyu, you are my first love, too.", Xin Qiao

One-on-one, happy ending.

Theme: Believe in yourself