A side couple story from Wet Nights
Elegant, carefree rich second-generation heir x cool-headed, clever, accomplished actress
Capital City circle | Aristocratic family | He pursues her | Entertainment industry | Bittersweet
1. Among the capital’s wealthy and powerful circles, Gu Shangli has always been the most desirable marriage prospect in the eyes of countless society ladies and heiresses. Unfortunately, he has no interest in it.
As the heir to Huanyu Films and a bona fide top-tier rich young master, he has everything going for him: handsome looks, height, education, and family background. Most importantly, he’s easygoing and always greets people with a smile, making him very likable.
His friends all know that Second Young Master Gu has had his eye on the same girl since they were children.
From the few words he lets slip after drinking, she’s cold, ignores him, and can’t stand him.
As for him, he loves throwing himself at her despite her cold shoulder. He’s pursued her for years without success.
One day, netizens dig up a photo from his private social media account. It’s blurry, but the subject appears to be a young woman seen from behind.
Within a day, rumors about their relationship shoot to the top of the trending lists.
The netizens are sharp-eyed and thorough. In just one night, they uncover the woman’s identity, suspecting she is the up-and-coming actress Chen Huiying.
The newly crowned ice queen, who rose to fame with a devastating melodrama, has won all kinds of awards and accolades in just two years. Her talent is not to be underestimated.
The public is in an uproar, and the entire internet condemns the rich young master for secretly keeping a female celebrity.
Chen Huiying faces a career crisis overnight. Her jewelry endorsement is gone, her latest S+ leading-lady drama falls through, and marketing accounts flood the internet with claims that she’s a resource-backed star climbing the ladder.
Late at night, Gu Shangli logs into his verified Weibo account, which he hasn’t used in eight hundred years.
He posts the account’s only update:
“Everyone can stop guessing. We’re not together. I’m the one who’s been shamelessly pursuing her.”
2. Ever since Chen Huiying can remember, she’s had an insistent little shadow trailing after her, one she can neither shake off nor scold away.
Whenever someone bullied her, that brat would charge straight at them and get beaten bloody. Then he’d turn around and grin at her. “It’s fine. I’m tough. I can take a beating.”
With tears in her eyes, she carried him to the hospital, wondering if he was an idiot.
After that, Chen Huiying turned him down countless times.
Every time, he listened seriously, then before long came bounding back with a grin, his eyes bright, his feelings genuine and straightforward.
Again and again, he’d say, “Chen Huiying, I like you. Give me some attention, will you?”
3. Later, she wrote a line in the afterword to her new film:
There will always be someone who holds nothing against you, crosses every sordid, broken part of your past, and loves you.
She thought Gu Shangli was that kind of person.
On the day she won an award, Chen Huiying stood onstage holding her trophy. Many fans who supported her sat below. Her gaze passed over them all and landed directly on the man in a black suit seated among the guests.
A little while later, a reporter asked about the relationship rumors from years ago.
She smiled calmly at the camera. There was a trace of helplessness in her smile, but even more of the true feelings she had kept hidden for years and could no longer conceal.
“Actually, he wasn’t the one shamelessly pursuing me.”
“I happen to like him, too.”
Reader’s Guide:
1. Happy ending | Both leads have no prior partners | Romance-focused
2. Companion story to Wet Nights
3. Includes a few entertainment industry elements, not professionally detailed
Blurb written on April 13, 2026
Theme: No matter how much time passes, I will still love you
