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Elegant, refined movie star × cool, resilient actress
Newly crowned Best Actress Yu Yin has eyes that are three-tenths sincere, three-tenths false, and the rest on the verge of tears. She’s hailed as the perfect leading lady for art-house films.
But everyone knows she’s a butterfly that rose from the mire.
At the awards ceremony, the presenter is Wen Mian, a Berlin Film Festival Best Actor from a powerful financial family, now at the pinnacle of fame and fortune.
Three years ago, they worked together on a film by a renowned director that was in the running for awards. Everyone said Yu Yin didn’t deserve her success and had offended Wen Mian, driving the famously gracious actor to Europe, where he disappeared from public view.
Now the premiere is just around the corner, and the entertainment industry is bracing for a storm.
What no one knows is that, on the same spring night in Beijing, a black car is parked beneath Yu Yin’s apartment.
Magnolia petals cover its windshield beneath the streetlight. Wen Mian clasps her hand in his burning palm, his handsome profile refined and distinguished, like an ink painting.
“Yu Yin, stay with me for five more minutes.”
He shapes her, and lifts her up.
Until her world shines bright.
Until she stands on the world stage.
Later, fans discover the matching wedding bands the two are wearing on the Cannes red carpet.
The news sets the country ablaze.
During a live interview, the comments flood the screen: [Bro, stop turning that ring around. We can all see it…]
That night, countless fans of this long-awaited couple decked the halls and celebrated as if it were New Year’s.
[Leopard and kitty, I knew you two were real!]
[I heard there’s a bed scene in the movie. By association, I can say I witnessed my own birth!]
[The most prestigious couple in Chinese entertainment, for real.]
Later, Yu Yin gives birth to a daughter, and Wen Mian announces his retirement from acting. His fans aren’t surprised at all.
[You stay home and focus on the baby. Your Best Actress wife will take care of your career for you.]
…
/As summer keeps coming around,
every road I take leads back to you./
An unconventional regret-and-reconciliation romance | Rekindled love | Serious entertainment-industry romance
Reader’s guide:
1. (SC) The heroine is beautiful, strong, and tragic. Her career and romance are equally important. Includes stories within the story, a nonlinear structure, and an interconnected plot. Chapters beginning with R are set in the present, while chapters beginning with P are flashbacks.
2. They’re both head over heels. A slow-burn, bittersweet romance that turns sweet in the middle and later arcs.
3. The leads have sex scenes, without explicit details. The heroine smokes when under pressure.
4. The hero has a female friend who has her own love interest and later becomes friends with the heroine.
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A Hong Kong tycoon with a family history of mental illness × a striking, ambitious law firm partner
|A troubled but easily soothed, beauty-loving ghost of a man|×|His cool wife, who smooths his ruffled feathers every day|
Yan Mige is the youngest equity partner ever at a top law firm in Hong Kong.
Her elegant beauty and clear, resonant voice have made her famous in Central.
Only Yan Mige knows how hard it’s been to get this far.
She is neither gentle nor modest, and even Lin Jiaying, the boss she has secretly loved for years and weathered every storm with, has never truly seen her.
But she never expected to get mixed up with Luo Honghe.
Rumor has it he murdered his father and drove his mother away, a cruel and erratic man who rose from an illegitimate son at the center of a wealthy family scandal to become one of the most powerful figures in Hong Kong’s political and business circles, all in just ten years.
More importantly, he’s the mad dog who has been obsessively pursuing Lin Jiaying’s fiancée for years.
On the day of Lin Jiaying’s wedding,
a storm rages outside the Bay Pavilion, and waves crash against the cliffs as if the end of the world is at hand.
Sadly, only the two of them are there to witness it.
A lighter wheel scrapes, and the flame flickers. The man’s profile is sharply defined, a spicy saffron fragrance clinging to him. Beneath thick lashes, his eyes are often tinged with mockery, like a dazzling ghost too noble to approach.
“Quinn, right?”
“I have a private suite upstairs.”
“Interested?”
Yan Mige gives him a faint smile. “Mr. Luo, aren’t you afraid the price of putting yourself on the line will be too high?”
*
Luo Honghe is troubled, but he’s also very easy to soothe.
He cares about pomp and style, and loves anything luxurious and glittering.
If you know the right way to handle him, calming him down isn’t difficult.
At the time, Yan Mige assumed he had someone else in his heart, and that the two of them were simply using each other.
Until one day, she comes home from working late.
The place is a wreck, with everything turned upside down. The man sits in the dark, his voice cool and chilling, barely able to keep his human form. “Where are the things I gave you? Are you trying to end things with me, ”
“I sent them to your house.”
“…”
“Weren’t you going to have me move in?”
Then he thinks of something else. His expression darkens again, and the corners of his eyes redden as if they might bleed.
“What about Lin Jiaying? You think I can’t do anything to him, ”
Yan Mige sighs and walks over, straddling his lap.
“Once the project’s over, I’ll delete him, okay?”
“I’ll go suit shopping with you the day after tomorrow, and I’ll come with you to the Karaka foal auction. I’ll wear the pigeon-blood ruby necklace for you tonight.”
“In exchange, you can’t call my watch a piece of junk anymore.”
The next morning, Yan Mige wakes up with not a single mark left on her skin. Furious, she slaps him.
He furrows his brow as if about to lose his temper, but then his eyes land on something lovely, and he grins, cheek bulging.
A brute is a brute. It’s not as if he’s a good person anyway.
*
[He is arrogant, lecherous, and vile, and should have been buried long ago. But his wife has a heart of diamond, and she is his only salvation in this world.]
|Saffron × Juniper|
#Heroine with strong agency, emotionally in control
#A wicked dragon and his emotionally steady queen
Theme: Love is a struggle against reason, a conscious descent into ruin
Very nice!! But I can't see enough! I also want to see more about their married life and so on. . .
It's been a long time since I've seen such a delicate and smooth love story about two people in the entertainment industry. Hahaha, maybe many readers like Tiantian at the end. I really love the past chapter that the author has greatly shaped, and I love the little details of the two people's birth in the play. I originally thought that the two people's love was due to drama, but I always felt that there was something missing. After reading it, I realized that although it can be summarized by this word, the two people fell in love with each other from their own perspectives. As the saying goes, if a broken mirror is reunited, either it is not broken or there is no way to reunite! I really like this story, and I also like the description of "Rust" in it~~The author has some very delicate descriptions, which really touched me when I read it! Thank you very much for bringing this story. Wen Yu also said 999999 (both of them are very sincere and good people.
My wife is so pretty. I posted it last night. Even though I have to go to work today, I still stayed up until almost 4 o'clock.
Beautiful! I didn't expect to find treasures of entertainment industry articles that interested niche audiences. It is my favorite setting of a two-actor play within a play. Although the collection is not large, there are actually no major problems with the writing, plot, and characters. Especially the part within the play is very tense. The smell of rust seemed to be transmitted to my nose through the words. The male protagonist is young, like a gentle fox, and the female protagonist is a pure actor, and you can see her pure love for acting. I had a lot of fun stumbling over CP while reading the article, hahaha. As expected, the article with a bit of a sour taste is the most interesting. It's not enough, but there are still some vague details. For example, the scene of the male and female protagonists breaking up was not directly shown. I had been looking forward to this scene before, but unexpectedly it was brought up without a direct description. It was only through the subsequent explanation that I understood the excuse for the male protagonist and the female protagonist to break up. However, I didn't really understand the explanation in the last chapter of the flashback, but it may be my personal reason, hahaha. The early to middle stages were actually quite tense, but I felt that after getting married, it became a bit cliche. But overall, the flaws are not outweighed, it is still a very delicious bowl of rice, and it deserves to be seen by more people 🤩
I don't quite understand this timeline. I need help sorting it out. Ying and Mian have known each other for 20 years. They were 16 and 19 years old, and Mian was 36 when they got married. Mian was 33 years old when she received the certificate. Could it be that the wedding took place three years later? But Ying only made one movie and followed it up with another drama. It feels like it didn't last long?
Aren't you going to update the welfare extras yet? Teacher 😭
[Purple Sugar]kswl[Purple Sugar]kswl is finished with flowers!!! PS: Can you please write an if line between Cheng Ting and Yingying HE? I beg you.
More welfare updates!! I feel like there are still many stories that can be written 😭 😭 😭
Check to see if there is a full order
Why is there only one chapter in the extra chapter 😭