After a Washed-Up Top Star Returns, the Cold-Faced Producer Is Both Ruthless and Doting

After washed-up top star Lu Xingchen makes his comeback, his first gig is a bit-part supporting role in an S+ project invested in by his former agency. The one sitting in the producer's office reviewing his contract is none other than Shen Feiyu, the ace manager who five years ago personally catapulted him to top-stardom—and then, on the night he was at his hottest, cornered him in the fire escape, kissed him, and vanished. Five years later, Shen Feiyu has become a cold-faced producer feared by everyone in the industry. In public, he is strictly business, calling him "Mr. Lu" again and again, personally lowering his billing and cutting his scenes, as if he has come back specifically to settle old scores. In private, however, he rewrites scripts for Lu Xingchen, blocks damaging rumors, protects his resources, and even still wears the old watch Lu Xingchen gave him five years ago. Then a five-year-old shelving agreement is exposed, and the person who personally signed his shelving papers turns out to be none other than Shen Feiyu. The trust that had just begun to waver collapses completely. But as Lu Xingchen follows that agreement and keeps investigating, he discovers that the so-called abandonment was never a betrayal: five years ago, someone tried to drag him—then at the height of his fame—into a shady deal, and Shen Feiyu paid with his own future and with leaving him so that Lu Xingchen could walk away unscathed. That unfinished kiss in the fire escape was not a beginning, but a farewell decided long ago. From tormenting each other to standing side by side again, the two finally cross over five years of misunderstandings and old scores. But just when Lu Xingchen returns to the top spot and their relationship is finally regained, the original agreement from back then suddenly disappears, and a recording of the deal—enough to ruin both their careers—is exposed. The truth they thought they had uncovered is merely the first layer of a larger conspiracy. This time, neither of them will let go of the other's hand again.