This story begins thirteen years ago.
Su Li is 28 years old and works as an agent for SunMedia.
She is very intelligent and quick-witted. The agents she has trained, while not all of them have become A-list stars, are all quite famous.
Her artist, Chen Keke, was poached by another company, so the company gave Ruan Dongming, who had never been very popular, to Su Li.
Ruan Dongming is two years younger than her, twenty-four.
Initially, Su Li was not happy because she disliked male celebrities. In her worldview, there was no such thing as a truly pure working relationship between men and women.
She worried that spending too much time with a man would lead to impure feelings, so she had always treated Ruan Dongming coldly.
However, this did not affect her dedication to cultivating and supporting Ruan Dongming.
Therefore, with her help, Ruan Dongming's appearances in announcements, movies, and TV series were almost non-stop.
The problem is, he just can't seem to get famous. At most, he might win a Best Supporting Actor award, and then he'll disappear from the public eye again.
Su Li spent a lot of time analyzing Ruan Dongming.
He has always pursued an idol career, but at the age of 24, he is still not very popular in the entertainment industry, which will affect his future.
Rather, it could damage her reputation.
After much consideration, she approached Ruan Dongming to discuss a career change, aiming to develop into a more serious actress. This would require her to shed her idol image and become a newcomer.
And, change your name.
Ruan Dongming trusted her completely and agreed without any hesitation.
Su Li thought about it all night, and then gave him the stage name: Ruan Cang.
As Su Li wished, the transformation was successful, starting with taking on bad roles.
He's played a fool, a vicious eunuch, a shady innkeeper, a serial killer suspect...
Various kinds of roles were played during filming, including crawling through mud pits and going down into ditches. After shedding his idol image, Ruan Cang became a convincing actor for every role he played.
It became popular in just two years.
Su Li admired his hard work and dedication, and developed subtle feelings for him.
Ruan Cang always maintained his best work performance, but never made any moves towards Su Li that went beyond the scope of their cooperation.
They took meticulous care of her.
One day, when Su Li was drunk, she asked him why he was so good to her.
Ruan Cang replied: "It is the kindness of your recognition and support."
Four words sustained their relationship for four years.
Su Li is thirty-two.
Ruan Cang was twenty-eight.
By then, Ruan Cang was already quite famous and was no longer the naive young man he once was.
The company believes that talent like Su Li should not be wasted on an already popular artist; she should contribute more to the company by mentoring other artists.
Su Li hesitated, then told Ruan Cang about it.
Ruan Cang did not try to stop her. He believed that it was because of him that Su Li was still unmarried at the age of thirty-two.
When Su Li was thirty, she had a good boyfriend, but because of his affairs, he kept running around and eventually broke up with her boyfriend because he couldn't stand Su Li constantly revolving around other men.
The artist I'm about to mentor is a 21-year-old girl. Perhaps she can have a good relationship and get married.
Hearing him say that, Su Li felt sad. She always felt that although this man was gentle and refined from the beginning, he was just a polite and respectful person and didn't really need her.
He followed those four words: gratitude for being recognized and appreciated.
There was only gratitude, not love.
Perhaps she really should seek her own happiness, and in the end, she agreed.
Unfortunately, Su Li never understood Ruan Cang; he was simply a demon.
His four years of fluctuating affection, yet also his meticulous care, were all for the purpose of making Su Li fall in love with him, keeping her by his side, and making her sacrifice for him.
How could they possibly let her leave?
Ruan Cang suggested treating Su Li to a meal to thank her for her companionship over the past four years.
Su Li had no suspicions and dined with him, drinking red wine as usual.
Su Li, who is usually very measured, drank a lot of alcohol this time, and with Ruan Cang drugging her, she eventually lost consciousness.
Ruan Cang took her to a hotel and had sex with her without her knowledge.
Ruan Cang was shocked to discover that he was Su Li's first man, and this vanity made him even more unrestrained.
In his eyes, Su Li was just his plaything.
Upon waking up, Su Li was horrified. Her manager was having an affair with the artist. If this got out, it would not only ruin her, but also his life.
She acted swiftly, intercepting all the surveillance footage from the restaurant and hotel, but she couldn't face Ruan Cang.
In her eyes, it was because she had developed feelings for Ruan Cang that she shouldn't have. She must have done that to him when he was drunk and incapable of thinking.
She was filled with remorse, but Ruan Cang said it wasn't her fault. When something like this happens, it's always the woman who suffers.
He will take care of her for the rest of his life.
Su Li believed him and became immersed in love. For him, she went against the company and stopped managing other artists, focusing only on Ruan Cang.
She even gave up better opportunities for further study, only wanting to wait until the day she could fulfill Ruan Cang's dream of winning the Best Actor award before retiring from the entertainment industry and becoming his bride with a completely new identity.
Ruan Cang never made promises, but he did promise to marry her.
Su Li was having this beautiful dream that she didn't want to wake up from.
This dream has lasted for three years.
Ruan Cang won the Best Actor award as he wished, and his fame soared overnight. Countless companies tried to poach him, until one day, the entertainment group he had always dreamed of contacted him.
Once he goes there, he will forever be a big brother in the entertainment industry. At this point, Su Li has clearly become a stumbling block for him.
She wouldn't allow it. She believed that the artists in this group were too scheming and backstabbing, while Ruan Cang was only focused on making good films and would inevitably be trampled on and suffer a lot.
Little did she know that Ruan Cang was the truly most powerful person, someone who had made her devoted to him for seven years without complaint, so why would she be afraid?
Su Li witnessed his lowest point, and he was unwilling to get entangled with her anymore.
That night, he invited several directors and artists from the industry to dinner and karaoke, and proposed to her in front of everyone.
Su Li was very touched and readily agreed, putting on the ring.
Everyone dispersed, and Su Li was a little drunk.
Everything was planned in advance; Ruan Cang pretended to take a drunk artist home.
Only a director, a screenwriter, and an agent remained in the room, with whom they had frequently collaborated.
Tang Yaoyao had never met the other people, but the screenwriter was Chen Chunqiu, who had not yet become a director.
On that cruel and merciless night, they violated Suli, who was half-drunk.
They ignored her pleas for mercy.
Su Li has a mature and sophisticated aura; she's a strong woman, the kind of woman many people dream of being.
Su Li was still foolishly convinced that Ruan Cang's friend had betrayed him, which was why he treated her this way, and that he might even harm Ruan Cang in the future.
Unbeknownst to her, Ruan Cang was outside the door at the time of the incident, listening to all the noise.
He leaned against the door, his hands clenched into fists, and a single tear fell.
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