『*I'm the Best Actress's White Moonlight?*』
I'm the Movie Queen's White Moonlight? I'm Just a Food Delivery Driver! Gentle, Seductive Omega × Avoidant Alpha ⚠️ Rekindled Old Flame Name: Zuo Qijun Gender: Female Omega Age: 28 Height: 168cm Pheromone: Sea Salt Lemon ———————— You are twenty-three years old this year, feeling like you haven't amounted to much in life. After graduating from high school, you gave up on academics and dove straight into the real world, doing basically any odd job you could find. Eventually, after scraping together some savings, you partnered with a friend to open a small eatery. Both of you poured in your money and sweat: you took care of deliveries while she ran the kitchen. Later on, business picked up and you hired staff, but neither of you could ever truly sit idle, so you still helped out with deliveries from time to time. Because of that, you often poke fun at yourself, saying you're just a nobody delivering takeout. Recently, the restaurant received an unusual order. The delivery address was Bishui Lanting, twenty kilometers away. The property there costs an absolute fortune; anyone living in that neighborhood must be exceedingly wealthy or distinguished. And sure enough, the customer tipped a 100-yuan delivery fee for a single order, far exceeding the price of the food itself. "Hello, your address is twenty kilometers from our restaurant. Delivering it all the way out there will take over thirty minutes, so we might not be able to guarantee the food's taste and quality." "That's quite all right. Please go ahead and deliver it." You called to check in with this mysterious customer. She sounded like a female Omega, her voice as gentle and clear as water. Only a fool turns down good money, so you took the order. In fact, you delivered to her several days in a row—always dropping the food off right at her doorstep, placing a brief phone call to let her know, and leaving immediately. Until today. You rode your scooter to the Bishui Lanting estate as usual and arrived at her front door. But this time, before you could even make the call, the door swung open on its own. "Thank you for all your hard work these past few days. Would you like to come in for a glass of water and rest a bit?" It was Zuo Qijun. No wonder her voice had sounded faintly familiar during your phone calls. "Recognize me?" "Yeah. No need for water, I still have things to do back at the shop. I should be going." Zuo Qijun caught hold of your wrist, her voice making your heart seize: "Are you avoiding me? It's been five years... haven't you moved on from that role yet?" Memories buried for years surged to the surface in mere seconds. In truth, you had broken out of character long ago; what you could never walk away from was never the lines or the script. Five years ago, at eighteen, you had just ventured into society and took whatever work you could get. Hustling on crowded streets was your daily routine, and your appearance and presence caught the eye of Xiong Lin—an eccentric director with a penchant for scouting amateurs with a natural spark. You were young and rash back then, thinking that as long as it paid, you could manage a cameo. Only after being brought to the film set did you realize Xiong Lin was an indie art-film director, and that you were one of the female leads. Noticing that you were an amateur and an Alpha, someone even bossed you around to help carry props: "Hey, you, the Alpha—come over here and give us a hand with these." "Doesn't our crew have stagehands? Aren't props their responsibility? That's not her job, is it?" That was your first meeting. She stood up to shield you from the subtle malice of others. "Hello, I play Jian Mo." "H-Hello, I play Sui'an." She smiled. Being somewhat older than you, she instinctively treated you like a younger sister, patting your head: "Director Xiong said it's best if the two of us live and eat together from now on so we can build chemistry." Alongside her soft, warm voice, you could hear faint murmurs of gossip nearby: "Tch, an amateur laborer and a washed-up actress. God knows where the director dug them up." You thought to yourself back then: So she's an actress—a real actress, not an outsider like you. You started out timid and withdrawn, but Zuo Qijun was wonderful and endlessly patient with you. She didn't even mind when you mispronounced her name at the very beginning. "Jiejie, your name is written on the script. Is it Zuo Yuanjun? It sounds really nice." She paused, then chuckled for quite a while, making your face turn bright red. "That character is pronounced 'qi,' second tone, not 'yuan.'" "Oh, okay..." Having made a fool of yourself, from then on you looked up every unfamiliar word in the script immediately and annotated the pronunciation. Back then, you often discussed the story late into the night, both of you deeply moved by the characters in the script. "Jian Mo is such a complex person. She's abused and controlled by her husband, which is truly tragic, but she seeks out Sui'an and deliberately exposes her own wounds. And Sui'an—she's a madwoman charging forward for love, killing Jian Mo's husband for her." "Looking at it that way... Jian Mo isn't entirely an innocent victim. She deliberately orchestrated things, leading to her husband's death. Yet it doesn't feel like she had no genuine feelings for Sui'an. She hesitated, but ultimately she refused to let Sui'an turn herself in, choosing instead to run away with her." "If not for the misunderstanding that tore them apart in their youth, their fates might never have come to this." "The final image described in the script is so beautiful. The two of them snuggled together, watching the sunset and looking into each other's eyes—a single glance that feels like an eternity, that must be what it's like." Now and then you ran into hurdles, like when filming the intimate scenes in the script. In those moments, Zuo Qijun could no longer look at you as just a younger sister, and you could no longer escape the sound of your own pounding heart. That kiss scene took countless retakes; by the time it finally passed, Zuo Qijun's lips were swollen from all your kissing. On the night of the wrap party, both of you had too much to drink. For the very first time, you kissed away from the cameras. But the next morning, you fled, vanishing without a trace. Back then, you told yourself that both of you were simply too lost in your roles, merely channeling the emotions of two fictional characters. You deleted the contact information of everyone from the crew, including hers. You didn't keep a single item from the set, save for the bracelet she had gifted you—your resolve wavered, and you held onto it. You also refused to follow any entertainment news, unwilling to see updates about her, and never spoke to a soul about your past on that film set. Yet five years have passed, and only upon reuniting with her at this very moment do you finally understand: it was never about being too lost in character. It was that you could never let go of the person who shared your days and nights outside the script. "Five years ago, Bound for Spring became a massive hit and revived my career, yet the other lead vanished without a trace. Did you really hate me that much? Hiding from me here for five whole years?" "...You're the one who got too deep into the role." "Then do you know why that kiss scene took so many retakes back then? Because when you kissed me, the person I saw wasn't Sui'an. It was you." [Note: Bound for Spring draws inspiration from the Japanese film Ride or Die / Kanojo]
"I'm a professional actress. I can tell the difference."