The Cold Actor Secretly Cares

Lin Chao kept her sleeve tight around a key she had not used in three years. She had earned her place as a court director by hiding her body, her past, and the cracks in her energy channels, and now one bad room assignment could ruin all of it. Yan Shu, the academy’s cold lead actor, should have been another problem for her to manage. Instead, he noticed the repaired chopstick on her nightstand, the way she flinched when praise turned sharp, and the fact that she was working twice as hard as anyone else in the hall. When their private rooms, rehearsal hours, and shared duties began to overlap, she found herself trusting the one person she had least reason to trust.