"Today is my 30th birthday."
"I've decided not to renew my contract."
"And I've decided to leave the entertainment industry."
"Not temporarily, but for good."
Su Youran, a top-tier star, announced her permanent retirement during a birthday livestream watched by a million fans, setting off a media frenzy across the entertainment industry.
Was she retiring at the height of her career after winning Best Actress?
Had her ex-boyfriend's engagement devastated her so much that she was leaving in despair?
Or had years of online harassment from rival fans finally pushed her over the edge?
The outside world came up with all sorts of theories.
Reporters and paparazzi surrounded her various homes in T City, hoping to capture the latest footage and break an exclusive story.
Little did they know that she had already sold every property she owned in T City.
At that very moment, on the night of her birthday party, she had already returned to Nanshan Town in X City, where she grew up.
When she was fourteen or fifteen, she had a crush on Ao Chuang, the older boy next door. She thought he wouldn't like a loud girl like her, so she never confessed.
What she didn't know was that when he was seventeen or eighteen, Ao Chuang had liked her too. He thought her world was colorful and full of life, and that she would never like a quiet boy like him, so he never confessed either.
For more than a decade, they were both busy. They returned to their hometown only a handful of times, and they had met so few times you could count them on your fingers.
More than ten years later, she retired and returned to her hometown, only to find that he had come back too.
And once again, they became neighbors.
Theme: Love yourself and love life
