The Years We Missed

Dori Vales LGBT+

The Chinese entertainment industry is a pool of fame and wealth. Once someone rises to the top tier, status and fortune seem limitless. Yet behind that dazzling spotlight lie countless unwritten rules, binding everyone who dares to step inside. For celebrities, falling in love often means losing fans. And same-s*x love is even more impossible to reveal, as it goes against the norms society is expected to uphold. Love in the public eye is already fraught with hardship, how much more difficult when it is a same-s*x relationship. The story begins in a fateful summer. On the set of Revenge Love, Tian Xu Ning and Ziyu cross paths. Two months of portraying lovers on screen also become two months in which their feelings quietly take root, and then burn brightly. Tian Xu Ning is like the blazing summer sun, warm, intense, powerful enough to melt the heart of Zi Yu, a heart already filled with cracks and scars. That time was brief, yet it became the happiest period in the life of a boy burdened by a painful past. But faced with the countless barriers surrounding same-s*x love, Zi Yu is ultimately forced to walk away from the person he loves. Four years later, Tian Xu Ning has become a highly sought-after award-winning actor, standing at the pinnacle of fame. Zi Yu, on the other hand, has left the entertainment industry behind, living a quiet, ordinary life. As the years pass, the distance between them only grows wider. Can sincere love bridge the gap between two hearts torn apart by fate? Can they continue the unfinished love of that summer, or will it forever remain nothing more than a fleeting season long gone?

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