Blended family / pseudo-siblings / living under the same roof / second male lead takes the lead
[If you ran into an ex again, how would you react the first time you saw them?]
That was one of the hottest questions on Zhihu. Back then, Zuo Kui thought it was a silly question. She hadn't met Wu Boyun yet, and she had no interest in dating.
Years later, Zuo Kui returned to Italy in triumph, bringing her work into the spotlight. At an art gallery in Milan, she personally staged a spectacular work of performance art.
In utter silence, would you smile or cry? What would you see in the other person's eyes?
For 719 hours over the course of a month, Zuo Kui met the gaze of 2,000 spectators. No matter what they did, not a flicker of emotion crossed her eyes.
Until, on the final day, Wu Boyun appeared and asked, "Zuo Kui, can we go back to how things were?"
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Later, Zuo Kui found that popular Zhihu thread again. The cursor blinked in the empty box as she typed a comment:
"Only later did I learn that loving someone could make you turn back from a wrong path. When you're young, you don't understand love; by the time you do, you're no longer young."
* Performance artist × captain of the Polar Night Rescue Team (Ice SAR)
* Inspired by The Artist Is Present
* Short story, 100,000 characters
* 2024.8.15: Names and blurb to be revised, core premise unchanged.
Theme: Becoming a better version of yourself
