Novelist Song Shiyi turned her unspoken affection for her 17-year-old deskmate Wu Yang into a bestselling novel rooted in her own experience. Ten years later, as the novel gets adapted into a TV drama, Wu Yang — now a popular actor — actively secures the male lead role modeled after himself. When the female lead fails to arrive due to a flight delay, Wu Yang suggests Song Shiyi stand in for a test shoot of the confession scene. Speaking through the script’s lines, he slips back into his sevent