Three years ago, full of hopes for the future, Mu Qiuming, who had trained in martial arts, stepped into the entertainment industry. His first job was as a stunt double for the male lead in a big-budget movie.
Mu Qiuming thought this was his starting point, but he never expected it to be both the beginning and the end.
During his final shoot, he injured his knee. People on the production team skimmed the money meant for his medical bills, leaving him hurt and penniless. Downhearted, Mu Qiuming returned to his hometown to teach in a rural school, settling into a simple, hard but wholesome and healing life.
Three years later, just as he thought he could finally face it all with equanimity, a luxury sports car drove into the quiet village.
The man who stepped out was dressed in stylish, expensive clothes, with a handsome, rakish face that could hold its own against any popular young actor in the entertainment industry.
Yet he was the kind of person those very actors would do anything to befriend: the young, outstanding rising director Heng Chong, already a triple award winner.
Heng Chong said he hadn't made a movie in three years because he couldn't find inspiration, so he'd chosen a small mountain village to cleanse his soul.
Since he was disrupting the village and the children, he had also brought over a million yuan in donations.
Construction began on a new school building. The children got new desks, chairs, and books, and better lunches. Everyone liked this handsome, wealthy older brother except Mu Qiuming, who couldn't be bothered to pay him any attention.
"Teacher Mu, why don't you like him?"
"I don't know. Maybe our horoscopes clash."
How could Mu Qiuming tell anyone that this man had once been the person he admired and pinned his hopes on, only to become the source of his hatred and pain?
Whenever he saw him, his healed knee began to ache faintly.
And yet Heng Chong found himself drawn to the only person in the village who didn't like him.
He seemed to have an endless supply of energy and an unbreakable spirit. The more Mu Qiuming avoided him, the more he wanted to chase him down and get an answer.
"Why do you hate me so much?"
Gradually, in this strange pursuit, inspiration and love seemed to catch fire together.
Mu Qiuming became an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Heng Chong, and he finally began developing his next film. But when he told Mu Qiuming about the idea, their relationship, which had started to thaw, grew cold again.
Heng Chong couldn't figure it out... Finally, on a sultry night in the blazing heat of summer, unable to sleep, Heng Chong wandered out of the village. Beneath a sky full of stars, in the clear stream, he saw a lean, powerful back. It was the most beautiful back he'd ever captured on film.
Heng Chong remembered: Mu Qiuming was the stunt double who had been injured three years ago!
But why was he here?!
*Although the story is related to the entertainment industry, most of the early plot takes place in the little world of the village school.
*His leg has healed, with no lasting effects.
*Roguish, outgoing director gong × resilient, determined shou who's gruff only with one person
*A story written for my personal tastes. I want to write a strange love that's both sticky and gloomy and sunny and cheerful. Let's cling to each other and stubbornly grow wild together, haha.
Theme: Overcome hardship and embrace yourself.
