We Never Met

Lin Youyou is a born couch potato.

Her inner world is entirely self-sufficient, and her life plan is to go with the flow.

She enjoys calligraphy and the guzheng. She doesn't follow celebrities or compete with others. Her greatest ambition is to land a steady job and coast through life.

Until she starts having strange dreams...

In a hazy memory, a man is struck by an arrow and dies...

When Lin Youyou wakes up, she falls silent: ...That dream really hurt...

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Xu Linchuan is an idealistic fighter who yearns for a brilliant life.

After his graduate school entrance exams, a friend jokes that it would be a shame for someone with his looks not to join the entertainment industry. He can't make up his mind.

That very night, he dreams of a woman slitting her own throat to die for love.

He wakes with a start and slaps the table. "I'm going to make it in the entertainment industry."

His friend asks, "Why?"

Xu Linchuan says, "I want to stand in the brightest place, so she can find me at a glance!"

Later, he becomes a little-known celebrity...

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The two stay busy following their separate paths through life, while fate's script unfolds in a muddle:

Following clues from her dreams, she flies to his city, and they pass each other at the airport.

Her roommate enthusiastically recommends a celebrity who happens to be his rival, but because she has no interest in celebrities, she casually hits "Show me less."

Just as she finally reaches the door to his hospital room, when they are only moments away from meeting, her future mother-in-law suddenly appears and mistakes her for an anti-fan, driving her away.

Lin Youyou: ...?

Everything has fallen into place, yet we have never met. Still, all that remains is for us to meet.

(Revision in progress...)

Reading guide:

1. The male lead works in the entertainment industry, but it isn't a major focus, and he is not based on a real person. All plot and setting details serve the story itself, so please don't read too much into them.

2. Roughly one-third of the story takes place in a past life.

3. A little angst.

4. Around 120,000 characters in total.

5. The male lead is straight.

Theme: Live in the present and don't fear the future