Desire Burns Like Fire

Desire is a flame. Play with fire, and you'll get burned.

Wen Yu thought she and Zhou Suiyan were merely temporary partners, each of them perfectly aware of the arrangement.

He helped her through a difficult time, and in return, she pretended to be his girlfriend to deal with his family.

In public, they were polite and distant contract lovers. In private, the kisses he placed on the side of her neck were always scorching, making it hard for her to stay in control.

She repeatedly reminded herself: Don't mistake the script for reality. We were never truly in love.

Until cracks appeared in real life. She boarded a train and ended their dangerous understanding with her own hands.

Years later, they met again at a dinner party, locking eyes across the crowd amid raised glasses and clinking cups.

She suddenly understood: those late-night moments of closeness, her self-righteous attempts to run away, even the independence she had now...

It had all been indulgence he allowed her, a story he had already written in the lines of his palm.

| Folk guitarist x playwright

| Neither is the other's first, thirteen-year age gap, happy ending

| Pretend relationship turns real, neither lead is perfect

Theme: Embrace a blazing fire, even if it sets the world ablaze