She was a hardcore CP fan who swore she'd never ship real people. Then she walked straight into the industry—and into the orbit of the woman who once wiped a stranger’s tears in a TV studio bathroom. Song Xingqiao has five years of acting and fewer than a hundred minutes of screen time. Shi Jiannian is a top actress famous for spoiling fans and for the worn baseball cap a certain person once handed back after a shy apology. Neither expects fandom to turn personal. Both think they’re only fueling careers—until the likes, DMs, and backstage favors turn into quiet coaching sessions, late-night walk invitations, and a fandom that insists on turning them into a ship. This is a slow-burn, glittering-entertainment romance about two women who begin as fan and idol, then become mentor and mentee—and finally the very thing neither planned to be: girlfriend and public target. Will a chorus of fans and a thousand pieces of media attention pull them together—or tear them apart before they learn how to hold hands in public?

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