She's Not Your Wife

[The clingy, shamelessly double-standard director x the cool, aloof actress who doesn't realize she's flirting]

Xie Xie is a director. He's strict at work, but wild behind the wheel. He's carefree and has had everything go his way for 27 years, except when it comes to falling for Shu Yuqiao.

When they first met, his friends teased him, and he replied with a perfectly serious expression:

"I don't like her."

Later, the paparazzi broke the news.

The aloof, cold, and mysterious director had actually been spotted half-kneeling beside newcomer actress Shu Yuqiao, pleading with her tenderly:

"Like me... Please, please like me."

Like a big Alaskan dog wagging its tail to get its owner's affection.

The video came out, the whole internet erupted, and the servers crashed for half an hour.

Xie Xie responded: I'm pursuing her. Got a problem with that?

Everyone: "!!!"

When Shu Yuqiao was seven, she fainted from hunger by the roadside, alone and ignored. When she came to, she headed for the dance studio and met a beautiful lady who gave her some cookies and took her to play on a film set.

That was also the day she saw twelve-year-old Xie Xie from afar. He was the lady's son, like a little sun, completely different from her.

She thought their lives would never cross again, but living under her parents' constant pressure had left her with a severe tendency toward self-harm.

As she struggled and asked herself what to do, she saw Xie Xie again. He had a three-minute fight scene in a movie, without a single line, yet somehow it gave her the courage to keep living.

She practiced dancing with all her might, won the top prize, earned the chance to go to school, and got into film academy, hoping to be closer to him.

When they finally met again, she realized something was off about her sun... He had confessed to her.

Shu Yuqiao rejected him, citing her condition, but he pulled her into his arms, radiating the bitterness of a jealous lover. "No. You gave me the cold shoulder for nineteen days. I'm upset."

Shu Yuqiao: "..."

Why couldn't she bring herself to say no anymore?

In the entertainment industry, it's no secret that Xie Xie is pursuing Shu Yuqiao, but she has yet to give him an answer.

That is, until a passerby snapped a photo from behind of a couple at the Civil Affairs Bureau.

[Shocking! Three-time Golden Award-winning director secretly marries rising star actress!]

Fans: "!!!"

"What the hell! When did you two get together?"

Another hot search was a comment Xie Xie had left half a year earlier in response to an obsessive fan:

[She's not your wife.]

The fan had replied: [If she's not my wife, then is she yours?]

Now, Xie Xie posts a photo of their marriage certificate under that comment, with the caption:

[Mine.]

The fan: "..."

Then another topic appears in the trending searches:

#Xie Xie Holds a Grudge#

Everyone thinks Xie Xie won her heart and got his wish, but only Shu Yuqiao knows that their fate was set in motion when she was seven. Everything she had ever wanted finally came true when she was twenty-three.

It's a story about a crybaby, hopelessly love-struck male lead saving a sensitive, insecure female lead.

"Love is the moment when inferiority steps out of the darkness and into the light."

--Shi Tiesheng, "Notes from a Sickbed"

A preview of "Mooring"

One day, the company where Wen Lü works is suddenly acquired.

The new boss, they say, is the stern, rising star of the industry, Zhou Chai.

Wen Lü's heart gives a jolt. The man she's heard about is very different from the boy he was in high school.

At seventeen, Zhou Chai was brash and spirited, the object of everyone's admiration and someone people were also eager to avoid.

At seventeen, Wen Lü was gentle, confident, and an excellent student, the kind teachers liked best.

After doing poorly on an exam, she was transferred from the advanced class to the regular class. She wanted to steer clear of Zhou Chai, whose name was on the disciplinary list, but her best friend needed a favor.

Hidden, restless energy seemed to hang in the air. Wen Lü, dressed in a plain white dress, stood beside Zhou Chai after he'd finished playing basketball and held out a pink letter with both hands.

The teasing around them grew louder, more annoying than the cicadas. Zhou Chai raised his eyebrows slightly and took it. "It's for me?"

This was the first time Wen Lü had looked him in the face. She smiled and explained, "It's... for your friend."

"..."

After that misunderstanding, he seemed to set his sights on her.

One summer night, Wen Lü ran into him in an alley. He was bruised, violent, and cold-hearted. Terrified, she turned and ran.

But later, in the deepening darkness, he caught her hand and smiled. "Don't be afraid of me."

"They're all bad people. I don't go around hitting people for no reason."

Wen Lü only nodded blankly, but in the days that followed, she still avoided him.

After the college entrance exams, on a rare rainy day, he stood there casually, smiling with careless confidence. "I got in like you promised. When are you going to be my girlfriend?"

But something had happened at Wen Lü's home. She pushed his hand away, forcing herself to sound cold. "I lied to you. You actually believed me?"

Who could have guessed that when they met again, he would become her direct superior?

At a gathering with friends, Zhou Chai was teased: "Mr. Zhou, you came all the way from Pingcheng to Ningcheng. Who are you here for?"

"Am I that desperate, chasing after her?" he said coolly, as if he didn't care.

Wen Lü stood with her back to him, listening, her expression dazed.

One day, after the company closed a major deal, the boss suddenly appeared in the company group chat to announce a dinner.

She thought it was only for the management team, but it turned out everyone was invited.

Amid shifting lights and clinking glasses,

someone seemed to glimpse them through the glass.

Outside, rain fell without end. Zhou Chai held the sleeve of Wen Lü's clothes, and something fell. No one knew whether it was a raindrop or a tear. "Lie to me one more time."

Theme: The misfortunes of childhood need love and time to slowly settle.