You Are the One in My Dreams

● Amnesia trope | Premarital marriage turning into love, from the heroine's perspective | He has a secret crush | Sweet romance

Jiang Cha was studying film at a well-known university. Though she wasn't an acting major, a director noticed her fresh, lively beauty by chance and invited her to play an important supporting role.

Nervous but excited, Jiang Cha decided to give it a try. Not long after she joined the production, however, the badly behaved male lead started clinging to her. He was always finding excuses to get close and saying things that made her uncomfortable.

Since she still had to spend some time on set and didn't want to make things awkward, Jiang Cha pretended she already had a boyfriend, hoping the male lead would give up on her.

But it was a lie, and it couldn't hold up for long. The male lead soon saw through it.

At a cast dinner, the male lead dropped all pretense and began threatening her outright.

When Jiang Cha anxiously confided in her best friend, her friend came up with a plan: [I'll rent a luxury car right now and hire a handsome guy who looks like a successful businessman to pick you up. Make him think your boyfriend has powerful connections and scare him off!]

After dinner, Jiang Cha followed her friend's instructions. The moment she left the restaurant, she spotted a clearly expensive luxury car, with her initials, JC, in the license plate.

She went straight for it, climbed in, and wrapped her arms around the man inside, who was more handsome than countless actors, pretending they were close. The man had a commanding presence. One look from him was enough to send the sleazy male lead scurrying away without another word.

Jiang Cha was extremely grateful to the handsome man. She took out her phone to pay him, only to see a string of frantic calls from her friend.

[Chacha, where are you?? The handsome guy I hired says he didn't see you. Are you okay? Reply as soon as you see this!]

Jiang Cha froze, then mechanically raised her head to look at the handsome man in front of her.

Then who was this man who'd just helped her put on a whole show?

Luckily, the handsome man needed money too, so she could settle things by paying him.

As she was about to get out of the car, Jiang Cha looked at his familiar yet unfamiliar face and couldn't help saying, "This may sound unbelievable, but I often dream about a man, and you look a lot like him."

After that day, Jiang Cha often thought about the man in the luxury car, though she knew they probably wouldn't meet again.

Then an unexpected problem came up. Staring at the pitiful balance in her bank account, Jiang Cha tentatively messaged him. And then she did it again, and again...

[Hey, are you still available for hire? Could you come to my film set? But I'm short on cash, so I might have to pay half price today...]

[Sure]

[Handsome, are you free? I'm still short on cash, so today I might have to pay half, then half of that...]

[I'm free]

[Um... well... could we pretend to get married? This time... I don't have any money...]

[Sure]

Blurb written on 2024.2.6

Theme: A love that goes both ways, and growing together