This kind of story... After watching for only a few minutes, Zeng Mu had already worked out how the plot would unfold.
The poor boy and the wealthy young lady love each other too much to part, but opposition from her father and her entire family leaves her feeling empty inside. Then, driven by some fierce, instinctive possessiveness, the bold man arranges to escape the castle with her on a full-moon night. They elope, seeking a peaceful place where no one can find them, and settle down to begin a new life of love.
In his prediction, the story was utterly clichéd. Perhaps that was because Zeng Mu's mother had been one of those women addicted to television dramas with this kind of plot. As a result, he had not grown up watching cartoons. With his mother monopolizing the television, he had been forced to watch these hackneyed stories alongside her.
Of course, there were exceptions to everything. Developments that seemed identical at first could turn out slightly different as time passed. Let those small differences accumulate for a while, and the final divergence could be astonishing.
Watching the leads perform their hearts out onstage as the supporting characters appeared one after another, Zeng Mu worked out two other possibilities in his head:
During a meeting beneath the stars, the heroine grows tired of the novelty and excitement that initially swept her away in love. She then asks the hero to part ways and never meet again. After grieving for a while, she will most likely encounter a second hero and begin another story with the same opening, though what follows might be different.
*During a meeting beneath the stars, the hero realizes that simple love cannot bridge the enormous gulf between their social standings. Tormented by his inferiority as