Entertainment: A song that brought his deceased wife back to life.

The laughter on the stage subsided.

Everyone looked at the man standing in the halo.

His face was expressionless, as if the "straight man" everyone had been laughing at earlier wasn't him.

I pressed the remote control.

The images on the big screen started flashing again.

This time it wasn't a chat log, but a photo.

The photo has low resolution and is even a bit blurry, indicating that it was taken with a very old mobile phone.

The background is an empty street.

The dim yellow light from the streetlights cast dappled shadows on the ground.

There were no people in the picture, only two very long shadows.

The shadow on the left is very tall and looks somewhat thin.

The shadow on the right was short, a small ball, and looked like it was wrapped up very thickly.

The short shadow stretched out a hand and made a big "V" sign at the street lamp.

The two shadows were very close together, and the "V" sign poked right into the head of the taller shadow next to it.

Although it was just two shadows, the playfulness and warmth that overflowed from the screen instantly silenced the audience who had been laughing.

Ke Min stared at the photo for a while.

She rested her chin on her hand, and her tone unconsciously softened.

"It has a very artistic feel to it."

Ke Min commented.

"These days, when young people are dating, they want to take ten thousand heavily edited photos of their faces and post them on social media. It's rare to see someone just taking pictures of their shadow."

She looked at Xu Qing.

"When was this taken?"

Xu Qing looked at the two shadows huddled together on the screen.

His eyes were somewhat unfocused, as if he were looking through the screen back to that cold winter night.

"December three years ago."

Xu Qing's voice was very soft, echoing in the quiet studio.

That was the first time we met.

"The first snow of the year fell in Linhai City."

"She stood under the streetlight for a long time, saying she wanted to take a picture with my shadow, so it would be like we had already hugged."

Several emotional girls in the audience gasped softly.

That's amazing.

This isn't a straight man; he's clearly a poet romantic to the core.

Ke Min nodded thoughtfully.

"In the photo, that...she seems to be wearing very thick clothes?"

It's actually more than just thick.

Even just looking at her shadow, you could tell that the girl had practically wrapped herself up like a ball.

Xu Qing gave a wry smile.

"Yes."

She wrapped herself up very tightly.

"That day she was wearing a thick woolen hat and a long red scarf that covered her entire face."

"Even his eyes are covered by sunglasses."

"They even wore gloves on their hands, and not an inch of their skin was exposed."

The entire audience was stunned.

Wearing a scarf and hat in the dead of winter is normal, but wearing sunglasses at night?

What kind of operation is this?

Xu Qing lowered her eyes, her fingers unconsciously plucking the guitar strings, producing a soft hum.

"Because I'm sick."

He said.

She said that with her condition, she couldn't stand the wind or bright light.

"Even the light from a streetlamp is harmful to her skin."

"So every time we met, she would hide herself in thick clothes."

Xu Qing paused, her voice a little hoarse.

"Until...until she left, I never got a good look at her under the streetlight."

The studio was deathly silent.

This kind of plot, which only appears in Korean dramas, actually happened in real life?

The audience began to stir, with everyone imagining countless possibilities.

"My God, this is too tragic!"

"Could it be albinism? Or some kind of severe immune system deficiency?"

"Can't stand the light of day? Could it be the legendary 'moon child'?"

"I have a relative who has a skin disease. It's really painful. His face breaks out in rashes if he's exposed to even a little wind."

"No wonder she said she was ugly and wore sunglasses; she must have been afraid of scaring Xu Qing."

"Waaaaah, what an amazing love story! He's so sick, yet he still goes out to meet people he met online."

Zhang Xiaohua was already sobbing in the audience, desperately blowing her nose with tissues.

"This is amazing! This is true love!"

In the control room, Wang Gang stared at the soaring number of comments, muttering, "That's how it should be! Torture is the key to high viewership!"

……

Cloud Top Heavenly Palace Villa.

In front of a huge LCD TV.

Contrary to what the audience expected, Luo Qianyu did not shed tears of emotion in heaven.

She was lying face down on the carpet in an extremely contorted position, her hands tightly covering her face.

The two exposed ears were so red they looked like they were about to bleed.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Luo Qianyu screamed and rolled twice on the ground.

"What albinism?!"

"What's so shameful about it!"

"I had just finished a gig and hadn't even taken off my makeup yet, you idiot!"

That day she had just finished recording an outdoor interview program, and her face was covered in full television makeup.

If Xu Qing saw her, anyone who wasn't blind would recognize her at a glance as Luo Qianyu, the national idol whose posters are plastered all over the streets.

Was it easy for her to conceal her identity?

She wore everything she could, even those expensive sunglasses that cost over ten thousand yuan, perched on her nose.

She almost fell there that night.

And this idiot actually thought she had a terminal illness?

"Xu Qing, are you a pig?"

Luo Qianyu peeked at the TV screen through her fingers and scolded him with exasperation.

"Who in their right mind would believe such a flimsy excuse!"

"Use your brain for a second, okay!"

Scolds are scolded.

Looking at the photo of the shadows on the screen, Luo Qianyu's cursing slowly subsided.

She remembers the temperature that night.

Five degrees below zero.

That idiot Xu Qing was only wearing a thin jacket and stood in the wind for two hours waiting for her.

The first thing I said to her wasn't complaining about the cold, but rather stuffing the milk tea I'd been hiding inside my clothes into her hand.

The milk tea was still warm.

"Don't be afraid."

At that time, Xu Qing smiled and said to her, who was wrapped up like a rice dumpling.

"No matter what you look like, even if you look like an alien, I still think you're cute."

Luo Qianyu sniffed.

My heart felt like it had been squeezed hard, and it ached terribly.

……

The show scene.

The image on the screen changed again.

It's a screenshot of a subsequent chat.

The time was after that meeting.

Xu Qing: [Are you home yet?]

Xu Qing: [It's windy today, I saw you shivering the whole time, are you still cold?]

Xu Qing: [You're cuter than I imagined.]

Xu Qing: [I meant the shadow.]

Below is the other party's reply.

Little Fish: [You're more clueless than I thought.]

Little Fish: [I'm talking about you.]

These few words eased the previously heavy atmosphere somewhat.

Although tinged with a touch of sadness, the flutter of excitement that followed their first meeting was impossible to hide.

"It's so sweet."

One female audience member cupped her face in her hands and exclaimed, "'You're cuter than I imagined'—that's the pinnacle of straight men's romantic lines!"

"Help! Why am I watching couples being affectionate on a talent show, especially since it's an outdated kind of affection?"

"The one in front, that's a once-in-a-lifetime display of affection, the kind that will bring tears to your eyes."

Ke Min was also touched by this pure emotion.

She's been in this industry for too long.

I've seen it all before: people sell their bodies to climb the social ladder, and contractual relationships are just a charade.

This kind of love, where you give your whole heart without even seeing the other person's face clearly, is so pure that it makes people jealous.

"And then?"

Ke Min couldn't help but press, "You've just kept it like this... and never seen their real faces?"

Xu Qing shook her head.

"She said she didn't want me to see what she looked like when she had an episode."

"I respect her."

"What she looks like is not important to me."

"Her soul is the most interesting I've ever seen."

After Xu Qing finished speaking, he pointed to the big screen.

"Here is an audio clip."

"She sent it to me after that meeting."

The staff member understood immediately and opened the audio file.