
![[ENG DUB] Dancing Toward a Love That's Gone](https://acfs3.goodshort.com/dist/src/assets/images/pc/common/f901131c-default-book-cover.png)
Nina Grant has spent five years of marriage chasing the highest honor in dance, a promise made to Ethan Blake’s mother before she was ever truly accepted as his wife. The finish line is finally close. But the marriage that was supposed to be waiting at the end of it has gone quiet in ways Nina can’t name. Ethan is there. He is warm enough.Something essential is simply no longer present in the way he looks at her. Nina keeps dancing because stopping feels like admitting it. But the music is harder to hear over the silence between them.

Modern office worker Emily Mason dies from overwork and wakes up in the 1980s as the wife of stone-faced military officer Ethan Hayes, who’s destined to become the world’s richest man. After Ethan injured his leg during flood rescue operations, he fell into depression.The original wife despised him for being disabled and demanded a divorce, hitting her head during the fight. When Emily wakes up and realizes what’s happened, she’s horrified. She also discovers that the war orphan Ethan adopted will become a future billionaire CEO.Emily decides to stay in the 80s and win over both her husband and their adopted daughter, building a fortune together and living the rich wife dream.

At 43, Monica Brooks cleans rooms in a luxury hotel while secretly holding onto one hope: finding her daughter, who vanished more than a decade ago. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she crosses paths with Ethan Sawyer, the 26-year-old hotel heir who has never forgotten her. The catch? Monica has no memory of him. When Ethan convinces Monica to work as the housekeeper at his secluded estate, his affection quickly turns into a relentless pursuit. But as Monica becomes entangled in his world, she notices something chilling—Ethan’s younger sister Lena looks more and more like the daughter she lost.

Willa Grant, a wealthy heiress, is hit by a car three days before her wedding and left paralyzed for life. What she never expects is that her fiance, Ethan Shaw, has betrayed her again and again. To make his illegitimate daughter Yara acceptable to Willa, Ethan deliberately delays Willa's surgery and secretly has her uterus removed. Heartbroken, Willa wakes to the truth. She pretends not to know anything, and while Ethan lets his guard down, she secretly contacts her best friend Sophie and leaves the country for surgery. Afterward, Willa personally witnesses Ethan meeting Jenna at the orphanage, Jenna coming to the Shaw residence to provoke her, Jenna framing her with a staged fall, and Ethan and his family insulting her without mercy. With her heart completely dead, Willa fakes her death in a plane crash and disappears overseas. When Ethan hears the news at the wedding, he breaks down. When they meet again, Ethan can only hide outside her hospital room and watch her rehabilitation from a distance. Crushed by guilt, he decides to let Willa live the rest of her life without him.

I spent millions supporting my fiancé Ethan and his greedy family for six years, yet they treated me like a servant. On the eve of our Maldives wedding, they downgraded my parents’ first-class tickets and gave the seats to Bianca’s family—Ethan’s first love. That was when I finally saw them for what they really were: parasitic and completely ungrateful. So at the wedding venue, I revoked every payment authorization and took up with a new shifter, Edward. When Ethan couldn’t cover the bills and called me in a rage—“The wedding’s about to start! Where the hell are you? Hurry up and pay for everything!”—I calmly told him the wedding was off. I’d already switched to a new shifter.

In her previous life, Evelyn Moore was deceived by her fiancé Ethan Cole and Susan Miller working together. Ethan lied that Susan had given up her full university scholarship to Evelyn, and used this non-existent favor to bind her for decades; after marriage, he let Susan and her daughter move into the master bedroom, while driving his own wife into the storage room. Evelyn toiled until she was over sixty, and only on her deathbed did she learn that the scholarship had always belonged to her, and that Susan's daughter Jenny was also Ethan's biological child.Opening her eyes again, Evelyn returned to the day she was filling out her university application. She secretly changed her application to the Western Defense Academy, which was closed off for five years, and decided to call off the engagement; but during the ten days before the pickup team arrived, Ethan and Susan still used framing, humiliation, detention, and forced blood draws to stop her from leaving. Evelyn fought her way out of the hospital and was picked up by her childhood friend Daniel Reed. Five years later, she returned with the rank of major, uncovered all the lies, completely severed her old relationship, and finally saw the person who had always respected and protected her.

Ethan and Sarah had been together for ten years. But on the eve of their wedding, Leo—a student from the slums whom Ethan had been sponsoring—moved into their wedding house ahead of time and even put on Ethan's engagement ring. When Ethan confronted Sarah, she not only took Leo's side defensively, scolding Ethan for overthinking, but also left an injured Ethan alone to attend to Leo, committing one hurtful act after another.Heartbroken and disillusioned, Ethan decisively called off the engagement, kicked Leo out of the wedding house, and demanded back rent. After losing Ethan, Sarah was consumed by regret while simultaneously being dragged into a relentless nightmare by Leo's family. Meanwhile, through his friend Sam, Ethan reconnected with his old classmate Chloe. As they worked side by side building their careers and navigating life together, feelings quietly grew between them. In the end, Ethan embraced a brand new chapter of his own.

In this episode of GoodChat, Evan Gambardella and Greg Duffy take us behind the scenes of their newest project, Straight Until He Kissed Me. The conversation dives into their acting journeys and the world of vertical storytelling, exploring how they each found their voice on-screen.

Ethan Shaw was once just an ordinary security guard in Grayhaven. At 26, he had never even held a woman's hand. When the zombie apocalypse broke out, he managed to survive for only 12 days before being torn apart by the undead. Then fate reset everything. Given a second chance, Ethan awakened the Apocalypse Convoy System, a power that grew stronger every time he saved a beautiful woman. As civilization collapsed and human nature turned darker by the day, Ethan built a convoy where survival, desire, and rewards became inseparably linked.

Nathan Young, the wealthiest man in Delphville, lost his fiancée in a car crash. The perpetrator, Emily Cohen, who was once a famous lawyer, was sentenced to three years in prison. When she got out, she became a street sweeper in destitution and got mixed up with Nathan by accident. She knelt on the floor begging him, "Nathan, have mercy." Nathan merely snickered, "Emily, I'm never going to let you go." They say that Nathan is cold-hearted, but he doted on Emily. By a twi