He Shengbo, a former child star whose fame has faded, spent years drifting through the entertainment industry before becoming a seasoned old hand scraping by on commercial appearances. Everyone thought this was all his life would amount to, and even he had accepted his fate.
Then, on a rainy night, he met Wei Yi, the genius director who had once made countless stars famous but was now disgraced.
"You smell like a dead man." Wei Yi stopped him, drunk. "You're perfect for the lead in my new film."
The industry was in an uproar, and ridicule poured in: a disgraced director and an has-been star, a partnership practically begging for humiliation.
But when the movie came out, He Shengbo's utterly transformed performance on screen left everyone speechless.
Overnight, He Shengbo was famous again. And as Wei Yi looked at him, his gaze grew more and more intense. "You know why you're so convincing as a dead man? It's because you're already dead."
"You didn't survive that car accident three years ago."