When they were young, Wen Sanglai casually picked a stalk of foxtail grass and waved it at Qi Mingchen. "Do you know what foxtail grass symbolizes?"
"What?"
"Secret love and love that has to struggle."
"How childish."
Years later, just as Qi Mingchen is cornered by debt collectors and on the verge of killing himself with a knife, Wen Sanglai appears out of nowhere and pays off more than a million in loan-shark debt for his father. But the man has one condition: Qi Mingchen must become someone's stand-in.
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One is great at putting on an act, the other is great at playing along.
Two workaholics.
School life in the early part, city life later. Reconciliation after a breakup, melodrama, mutual secret love, mutual salvation.
Two poor souls huddling together for warmth.
Both have foul mouths, but otherwise they're pure. The gong had someone he liked before.
The gong had a white moonlight who looks somewhat like the shou, but the shou isn't a stand-in.
If you spot a trigger, run.
Theme: Work hard to earn money to get by
