Like a Shadow, Always by Your Side

In memory of the eighth year of her life as a trainee, when she died.

She opened her eyes and returned to eight years earlier.

With confusion in her heart, she stepped onto the audition stage.

Amid the shifting lights and shadows, the bird on the judges' panel beat its wings,

igniting her lifeless eyes.

During her recovery from an injury, Gu Lingyan accepted a booking for the talent competition "X" to repay a favor.

When she first met Ji Nian, she frowned and held up the only B-grade scorecard on the judges' panel.

She disliked Ji Nian's despondence, and she disliked how, beneath her near-perfect stage presence, there was a soul without love.

Until she saw the flames dancing in those eyes amid the lights and shadows onstage.

Gu Lingyan's injuries were her medals, a manifestation of her love for the stage.

Yet they became the least important of the reasons Ji Nian loved her.

Extra scene:

A year after X debuted as a group, they held their final performance and bid farewell to the stage.

At the fans' request, Ji Nian started a livestream on her phone in the group dorm.

Fireworks went off somewhere outside. Everyone ran to the rooftop in their slippers,

leaving behind the phone with the livestream still on.

The camera of the phone on the carpet happened to be aimed at Ji Nian's waist as she sat there.

The confused fans chattered noisily in the comments.

The next moment, the door opened and footsteps sounded. A woman's long, slender legs appeared on screen. She bent them and sat in Ji Nian's arms. Her waist, clad in a dark teal shirt, pressed against Ji Nian's, and a hand with distinct knuckles reached around from behind to hold her slender waist. Long fingers brushed her lower abdomen and gave it a little tug.

"You're here so late. Missed me?"

Ji Nian's smiling voice reached the livestream: "Is your back hurting again?"

"Whose fault is that?"

The woman's clear, cool voice silenced the comments for an instant. Then countless people flooded into the livestream, their comments covering the screen.

[Even if the Queen Mother of Heaven herself showed up, I'd still say it: Wu Suogu is real!!!!]

[Please elaborate: Is your back hurting again?]

[Please elaborate: Whose fault is that?]

[We're all members here. What can't we hear? Tell us everything!]

A 1.8-meter-tall, ultra-dominant trainee queen x the dream girl of the lesbian scene, the noble true goddess of the music world

Theme: Never give up