1. Nancheng Drama Academy is a star-making factory. The two most talked-about acting students in this year's class are Jiang Yu and Hua Yuran.
Jiang Yu is upright and proper, and often plays righteous characters. Hua Yuran was born with an alluring charm, and often plays femme fatales who bring ruin to kingdoms. When they first work together onstage, they come to admire each other's diligence and professionalism.
One day, Hua Yuran sneakily hands Jiang Yu a love letter and presses down on his hand as he tries to open it. "Read it when you get home."
After reading the letter, full of suggestive and passionate words, Jiang Yu politely turns her down. "I want to focus on my studies."
Hua Yuran nods.
Jiang Yu: "Are you okay?"
Hua Yuran: "Why wouldn't I be...?" She wasn't the one who wrote the letter.
"It's just a bit of a shame, that's all."
Jiang Yu: .
2. After turning Hua Yuran down, Jiang Yu loses his appetite and can't sleep at night.
His roommate points out that he's fallen for her without realizing it, and Jiang Yu agrees wholeheartedly.
So when he hears that Hua Yuran has gone to a bar with another guy, Jiang Yu rushes over, pulls her out of the dance floor, and pins her against the wall.
"Don't go with him. I'll let you kiss me, okay?"
Hua Yuran: ?
3. Jiang Yu launches into a passionate pursuit, leaving the entire acting department watching in surprise.
Everyone says that this upright, self-controlled man, as chaste as Liu Xiahui, is surprisingly ardent when he falls in love.
In the theater, Hua Yuran is dragged into rehearsing a kissing scene and kissed until her legs go weak. Her cheeks flushed red, she pushes him away. "Jiang Yu, don't go too far."
Jiang Yu gazes at her full, crimson lips. "You have to take your acting practice seriously."
4. A natural-born actor, Jiang Yu reaches the peak of his career right after graduation, sweeping awards at home and abroad to become the youngest Best Actor in mainland China.
Hua Yuran, meanwhile, goes from playing maids to wicked supporting actresses, spending years in bit parts in the entertainment industry. No one would think to compare the two of them.
Until one day, at an awards ceremony, the usually composed and aloof man unexpectedly wears a black earring.
When a reporter asks him about it, Jiang Yu replies with a faint smile, "My wife likes it."
The whole room erupts.
The hashtag "Jiang Yu's Secret Marriage" keeps climbing the trending list.
While everyone is still guessing who the mysterious Mrs. Jiang might be, Jiang Yu posts on Weibo:
"Congratulations to my wife on her award, @Hua Yuran"
The photo shows the two of them in their wedding attire.
Netizens go wild, and Weibo nearly crashes.
[Am I seeing things? The Best Actor is married, and his wife is Hua Yuran!]
[Waaah, I want to know what it feels like to be Hua Yuran, making an ascetic Buddhist fall from grace!]
[Am I the only one who thinks the Best Actor looks even more seductive in that photo?]
#I never thought I could fall so helplessly in love with someone#
Theme: My old-fashioned Best Actor husband