Blazing Sun [Entertainment Industry]

Top-Tier Starlet x Billion-Dollar Director | Child Prodigy vs. Late Bloomer | Reunited Lovers | Happy Ending

In their youth, Lu Jian and Li Yao were the brightest stars at Rongcheng No. 7 High School.

No one knew that on a rainy day, they had once huddled beneath the same school uniform, dancing together in the shabby auditorium by moonlight. Nor did anyone know that the person who helped the top-tier starlet navigate her dream-chasing journey was her first love of five years. She had debuted at eighteen and immediately reached the top.

They both once thought they would go through one five-year stretch after another hand in hand, but overnight they became strangers to each other.

Years after their parting, Li Yao is still wildly popular. Lu Jian gazes up from the crowd at the sun she set free with her own hands, and resolves to start a new life.

But she never expected that the former taciturn girl would repeatedly leave her speechless with sharp retorts, and make her blush with flirtatious remarks now and then. The superstar who has dominated the entertainment industry for ten years is still like the fresh-faced seventeen-year-old girl in front of her: offering her a sincere heart, hiding her scars, and waiting for her alone.

People always say Li Yao was born to stand onstage and be everyone's sun. But she wants to be Lu Jian's moon, lighting the way home for her.

She waited five years. At last, Lu Jian is shining on the path she had long hoped to take. This time, she'll help Lu Jian ascend the throne.

The past can't be rewritten, so why not begin anew right now?

This time, they walk down the street hand in hand.

You come into this world, and you must see the sun.

Walk down the street with the one you love.

Haizi

[School + Society + Entertainment Industry] Flashbacks in chapters 2-32 cover their high school years. 1v1 throughout.

[Bonus Scene]

Lu Jian has just won Best Director for the country's first film with two female leads, and now she's taken home Best Screenwriter at an international film festival. She's the talk of the town. A reporter looks at Lu Jian and Li Yao, who play lovers locked in a fierce love-hate relationship in the film, and asks, "I hear you were classmates in high school. Could you tell us a story from back then?"

Lu Jian glances at the woman who's been itching to make a move all day and says with a smile, "Sorry, she and I weren't close in high school."

The reporter's eyes gleam with even more gossip. Li Yao's smile, which had fallen, brightens again as she agrees, "Everyone says Director Lu was a straight-A student who only cared about studying."

That night, Li Yao pins her against the desk, stroking those dishonest red lips as she asks, "We weren't close?"

The desk beneath them holds too many memories. Lu Jian tilts her head and feigns innocence. "Were we? I don't remember."

"Is that so? Then let me help you remember." Li Yao easily stirs the desire Lu Jian has buried deep inside. Tonight, she's going to study.

The day their relationship is exposed, the entire internet crashes.

1. They take things slowly before turning eighteen, with plenty of secret pining and feelings they don't recognize.

2. The characters aren't based on real people. Please don't associate them with anyone in real life.

3. It's a story about reaching the summit together.

Other completed stories set in the same world: Has Actress Shen Made Dr. Yi Fall for Her Today? and Keep Out. Both are super sweet. Visit the author's page to read them~

Next story: Gu Shangyu, Put Away Your Mental Power. A proud, violence-loving Sentinel who can't stand fools x a ruthless, levelheaded, and cunning Guide who doesn't waste words

Blurb:

An asteroid struck Earth seven years ago, devastating life on the planet. It also gave rise to a group of awakened individuals whose five senses and physical abilities far surpassed those of ordinary people. Combat-oriented awakeneds are called Sentinels, and support-oriented ones are called Guides. The Hongmeng Consortium, made up of top-tier awakeneds, rebuilt the world's collapsing order.

An outbreak of mutated beasts in District 1 throws the restored order into chaos once more. Various factions are stirring beneath the surface, and the Divine Insight Bureau and the Mediation Office are ordered to investigate. Long-buried events are brought to light as a result.

Mo Wan is an S-rank combat-type awakened feared by both humans and beasts. She single-handedly founded the only all-female Divine Insight unit. Her personality is as overbearing as her strength, and she especially loves taking down arrogant idiots. On top of that, she has a stunning face that everyone covets. The awakeneds she's put in their place only dare mock her behind her back, saying that her arrogance will make her Mindscape spiral out of control and kill her sooner or later.

Mo Wan doesn't care. She sticks to the principle that "I'm in charge of my own Mindscape," going her own way and refusing to accept mental guidance from any Guide, until she meets Gu Lingxi.

At first, she thinks Gu Lingxi, a cold beauty who is sometimes an enemy and sometimes an ally and always wears a stern expression, is a brilliant but frail healer. Later, she discovers that this woman is a black-hearted wolf in rabbit's clothing.

Trapped in an encirclement yet again, with her mental power exhausted and enemy reinforcements already on the way, Mo Wan mocks herself for seeming destined to die from a Mindscape breakdown, then forces her potential to awaken.

Before she can go down fighting, a vast, overwhelming force of renewal bursts through the thick stench of blood and sweeps across the battlefield. The arrogant, ferocious Sentinels all turn into helpless weaklings, sprawled across the ground.

The black-hearted beauty is still impossibly beautiful as she walks toward the woman standing tall in the middle of the battlefield like a banner. Mo Wan suppresses a muffled groan and shiver that nearly escape her because she feels so good, raises a hand to cover those clear eyes now turning blood-red, and says calmly through her daze, "Gu Shangyu, put away your mental power."

Gu Lingxi thinks Mo Wan is adorably contradictory. She's an expert in advanced equipment and lethal combat techniques, but she handles her mental power, which is as chaotic as a pot of porridge, by street racing, drinking, and going clubbing like someone from ancient times.

Just like the little white tiger in her Mindscape: it bristles before anyone can touch it, but once someone does, it rubs its tail against them instead. So very proud.

Later, however, the prickly one starts treating her like an all-purpose recovery pod. Turn the power up too high and it won't do; turn it down too low and that's even worse.

Fortunately, they're a perfect match.

Theme: Be your own sun