I Could Give You the Moon

Chanel Cao is an eighteen-year-old socialite, influencer, and student at Airington International Boarding School in Beijing. Wealthy and image-conscious, she has spent years cultivating a perfect public persona while coping privately with her parents' crumbling marriage. Her father, nightclub owner Cao Yunchen, cheated on her mother, the supermodel Coco Cao, and the family has been fracturing in secret ever since. Chanel has vowed never to fall in love, convinced that romance only leads to devastation.

One evening, after helping a friend confront a cheating boyfriend at a hotel restaurant, Chanel notices Ares Yin, the intimidating new student at Airington, leaving with suspicious urgency. She follows him to a park, where the lake's surface begins displaying moving images like a film reel. The first vision shows a mundane school scene: Chanel's math teacher, Ms. Hoang, calling her over while Ares stands nearby. Then the images turn sinister: Chanel bruised and bloodied in an alley with Ares shouting at her, and her childhood home engulfed in flames with a figure she takes to be her mother trapped inside while Ares holds a lighter beneath a blood-red moon. Ares reveals he has visited the lake for months, and nobody else has ever been able to see the images. Terrified that he intends to destroy her home, Chanel flees.

The next day, the vision's first scene comes true: Ms. Hoang calls Chanel and Ares to stay after class, exactly as depicted, and assigns Ares as Chanel's peer tutor. A school email announces that prom will coincide with a lunar eclipse and blood moon, and both have been nominated for prom royalty. Chanel concludes the fire is destined to happen on prom night.

She turns to her best friend, Alice Sun, and Alice's boyfriend, Henry Li, for help. Alice previously gained the ability to turn invisible, giving the group some experience with the supernatural. Henry presents two philosophical frameworks: One holds that the future is predetermined, while the other argues it is malleable through small changes. Chanel devises a strategy: if she can manipulate Ares into attending prom as her date, he will be physically unable to set the fire, since the prom king must remain at the venue until midnight.

Chanel enlists Jamie Lai, a member of an idol group called The Eight, to investigate Ares's background. Jamie discovers that Ares's mother died giving birth to him, his emotionally distant father is based in Beijing, and he has a younger half-brother named Luke who has been missing for three years. Meanwhile, Chanel uses bold tactics to capture Ares's attention, from faking injuries to planting her bracelet in his bag and posting photos to fuel dating rumors.

Ares's perspective reveals a parallel story. He has been searching for Luke ever since the boy ran away three years earlier, after Ares, hurt by their father's blatant favoritism, snapped at his younger brother. The lake's vision of Luke near the burning house is Ares's last thread of hope. When a thief recognizes Luke's photo and reveals the boy works for a man called Long Ge, Ares joins Long Ge's underground fight club, the Cave, where winning five consecutive rounds earns a personal favor from Long Ge.

When Chanel revisits the lake, the vision has expanded: two new figures appear near the fire, a middle-aged man with a crescent-shaped scar and a panicking teenage boy. She later identifies the scarred man as Long Ge, her mother's former classmate, after finding an old photo in a family album. At the Cave, Chanel discovers a locked office containing a shrine to her mother: unsent love letters, paparazzi photos, and memorabilia revealing Long Ge's obsession with Coco. When two of Long Ge's men corner her, Ares fights them off. Outside, in an alley, Chanel realizes this is the exact scene from the vision: her standing bruised, Ares furious before her. The bruises came from Long Ge's men, not from Ares. She had misinterpreted the vision from the beginning.

At Ares's apartment, Chanel breaks down over his injuries. They kiss for the first time and she falls asleep on his chest. Over the following days, their relationship deepens through study sessions and late-night meals Ares cooks for her. Chanel achieves a significantly improved math score, and the thought "I might love you" begins recurring in her mind, terrifying her because it contradicts every rule she has built around protecting herself.

At her mother's party, Long Ge pressures Coco to sign a contract with his media agency, and Chanel tries to warn her mother, but Coco dismisses the concern. When Chanel drops her phone, Long Ge sees Ares's photo on the lock screen and recognizes him from the Cave. Later, at the lake, Ares turns down Chanel's prom invitation, saying there is something he must do that night more valuable to him than his own life. Devastated, Chanel interprets this as rejection and leaves.

Ares fights through the Cave's remaining matches until Long Ge summons him. Long Ge demands that Ares use his relationship with Chanel to stop her interference so Coco will sign the contract, offering access to Luke in exchange. Ares is trapped: Refusing means losing his only chance to find his brother.

On the night of the blood moon, Chanel frames Ares for theft, landing him in detention so he cannot leave campus. She books her mother a flight to a resort in Sanya to get Coco safely away from the house. But Coco delays her departure to retrieve customized sunglasses, forcing Chanel to rush back inside to fetch them.

Ares escapes detention, meets Long Ge, and finally sees Luke. He hands Long Ge a forged contract and grabs his brother's hand. They sprint away, but Long Ge discovers the forgery and gives chase. Ares tells Luke to flee while he stays behind to fight. Long Ge reveals he leaked the divorce news to isolate Coco and has been eliminating obstacles, convinced she will eventually turn to him. Meanwhile, a masked associate sets Chanel's house on fire, trapping her inside by locking the front door.

As flames consume the house, Chanel realizes the screaming figure in the vision was herself, not her mother; their striking resemblance caused her to misidentify the victim all along. Ares fights free and carries Chanel out through the flames before she loses consciousness.

Chanel wakes in a hospital room, Ares asleep on the floor beside her bed. Long Ge has been arrested for arson, running an illegal fight club, and exploiting minors, and Luke has been freed. Chanel discovers a permanent burn scar on her collarbone. Her mother arrives, and they share an emotional reconciliation, with Coco acknowledging Chanel had tried to warn her.

In the weeks that follow, Ares reunites with Luke, who reveals that Long Ge's associates recruited him after he ran away and threatened to harm his family if he tried to leave. Luke shares a video of Ares's late mother, suggesting their father's emotional distance stemmed from grief rather than indifference, and the brothers begin rebuilding their relationship.

Having already become an official couple weeks earlier, Chanel and Ares return to the lake and find the vision gone, only their own reflections on the water. Ares gives Chanel a silver necklace with a crescent moon pendant that rests over her burn scar. In an epilogue, Ares surprises Chanel with a private prom celebration, having invited friends from every circle of her life and arranged a custom version of her dream dress. She also learns he anonymously suppressed the trending divorce story months earlier. Surrounded by the people she loves, Chanel reflects that she no longer needs to be loved by everyone; she only wants to be in the same room as everyone she loves.