Falling into Your Sea of Stars

[Theater-Obsessed Actress Returning to Avenge Her Family vs. Genius Documentary Director Who Willingly Enters the Game]

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At a dinner party, someone brought up the past, saying that back when Xu Wanyi was in that whole mess, Chao Qichen had been protecting her behind the scenes, and that her comeback now was also thanks to sleeping her way to the top.

"It's obvious she has a sugar daddy. How else could she make a comeback?"

"Have you seen the way she looks at Chao Qichen?" the person continued. "Tsk, who would believe there's nothing going on between them?"

"But hasn't Chao Qichen always had a fiancee?" someone asked, puzzled.

Everyone burst into laughter, their glasses clinking: "Mistresses are nothing unusual in this business."

Chu Langshe held his glass, his expression unreadable.

In this world of fame and fortune, the people Chu Langshe despised most were actresses who would stop at nothing to climb the ladder.

Yet Xu Wanyi kept showing off in front of him, time and time again.

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In the hotel's hallway late at night, Xu Wanyi came out of an actor's room and ran into Chu Langshe.

"Since this fish won't take the bait," he drawled, his voice tinged with his usual mockery, "are you planning to try your luck elsewhere, Miss Xu?"

Xu Wanyi frowned. "I was going over the script with him."

"A nighttime script-reading session?"

She took a deep breath. A vein throbbed at her temple, and she could no longer hold back. "Are you sick?"

Chu Langshe thought he might be sick too.

He kept a secret deep in his heart, one he could never bring himself to reveal.

No one knew that he had fallen for her many years ago.

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Scandal clung to her, and millions reviled her. Everyone was waiting to see Xu Wanyi fall into the abyss again.

During those darkest years, she faced everything alone, with no one reaching out to her.

Only he gave her a sea of stars.

She walked through thorns with bloodied feet, seeking nothing but the truth.

He parted the fog and guarded a lifetime of starlight for her.

Before daybreak, while their love burned brightest,

"Take me away from here, just for this second."

[Top-Tier Redemption] [Mutual Firsts] [Sweet Story of a Secret Crush] [Happy Ending]

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[Strong, Cool-Headed Top Student Repeating a Grade & Scheming College Guy Willing to Be the Other Man for Love]

On a sweltering afternoon, Shen Yanyu had just delivered a gas tank. She counted the loose change as she walked downstairs, the coins clinking in her palm.

"One hundred and six yuan." A clear, cool male voice sounded behind her, startlingly out of place in the stuffy stairwell.

Shen Yanyu stopped and turned to look up. In the cramped, crowded stairwell, a figure stood on the half-landing above, backlit.

She couldn't make out his face clearly. All she could tell was that he seemed completely out of place in this shabby old neighborhood, like a clean, cool shadow that had wandered into a swamp.

She lowered her eyes, turned, and continued downstairs, counting her money.

"Hey, how do I get to Xinghuai Lane?" he called after her.

"Fifty yuan." She held out her open palm. "That's the fee for showing you the way."

Shen Yanyu didn't know then that the stranger asking her for directions would become like a nail driven into every part of her life from then on.

Theme: Before daybreak, while the starlight still shines