Let Me Sing You a Love Song

#Entertainment Industry | Mutual Pining | Meeting at the Top | Strangers in Public

[Blurb]

Lu Ye is a hugely popular star.

Lin Qi is a junior in the same department. They attended university together for four years and crossed paths a few times, but they couldn’t really be called acquaintances.

Lin Qi has a little account that no one pays attention to, locked away like a diary full of feelings she keeps to herself.

During the years she loved Lu Ye most fiercely, she wanted to share every casual doodle, cloud on the horizon, and little purple flower by the roadside with him, even though that account was just one among his more than twenty million followers.

Lin Qi thought she could keep performing this one-woman show forever.

Until one day, her doodles appeared on Lu Ye’s outfit for a music festival, and a calico cat she had drawn showed up in his home.

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The biggest secret of her life was exposed right to her face, two years after she’d already ended that one-woman show.

At a music-industry dinner, Lu Ye was the center of attention, but his gaze crossed the round table and landed, almost imperceptibly, on the newly graduated production assistant. He asked her, “Why did you stop updating your alt account?”

He’d patiently played along with her for all these years. What gave her the right to just decide she didn’t want him anymore?

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Years later, when Lin Qi held her first concert, shining like the idol she’d once admired beneath a dazzling spotlight, surrounded by a roaring crowd of fans, the seat she’d saved for Lu Ye was empty.

Alone, she returned to her dark, silent hotel suite and listened to Lu Ye’s new song from the bathtub. Suddenly, as if sensing something, Lin Qi quietly walked toward the door.

The antique copper door swung open, and their gazes met, like a towering tide surging just before dawn.

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Here’s the blurb for my ongoing novel, No Wind Dares [The Second Male Lead Takes the Stage]. Feel free to add it to your favorites:

1.

When Zhou Xitang watched herself run aground, she met Meng Yuzhi.

At the time, she was about to marry up and reach the MVP moment of her life.

Yet she felt like a black whale stranded on the beach, slowly rotting away.

Meng Yuzhi handed her a lemon-scented tissue and played the male lead in her work.

He asked her carefully whether she thought he’d done well,

not knowing that all her male leads had been created in his image.

2.

Meng Yuzhi is known throughout the entertainment industry as a gentleman of impeccable character.

He takes losing roles, false rumors, and online attacks in stride, always keeping his emotions in check.

But that night, he smashed the floor-to-ceiling window of Zhou Xitang’s apartment.

At the time, Zhou Xitang was pinned against the window by Shen Jinchuan, while fireworks celebrated them across the city.

Their wedding was five days away.

Afterward, Meng Yuzhi rushed upstairs and found Zhou Xitang amid the mess Shen Jinchuan had left behind, typing out a letter to end the engagement one word at a time.

3.

The wedding was called off, and Zhou Xitang calmly cleaned up the mess.

At a script read-through, she ran into Meng Yuzhi. The two champions of personal boundaries shook hands and said, “Looking forward to working together.”

Afterward, Meng Yuzhi cornered her in the car.

She watched as the desire in his eyes turned dark and his gentlemanly persona crumbled completely.

He moved aside the hand she habitually used to cover her eyes and held it above her head, refusing to let her look away.

His loss of control and possessiveness were reserved exclusively for her.

4.

Meng Yuzhi’s search history:

The Actor’s Guide to Self-Cultivation

How Male Actors Can Improve Their Virtue

How to Become an Actor of Both Virtue and Talent

How to steal a capitalist’s fiancée

Waiting for answers online. It’s urgent.

Theme: Embrace life