The life of financial analyst Su Qingyuan is a linear equation accurate to two decimal places: graduate and join a top investment bank, complete doubling of assets before the age of 30, and every step is progressed as planned. Until she met Gu Yichen, her "parallel line" in college, at an industry summit.
Back then, he was an art student holding a guitar and singing folk songs, and she was a top student with her head buried in her question bank. Their classrooms were three floors apart, and their only intersection was the occasional glance in the library. Now he has become a well-known independent musician, driving an old RV through the corners of the city, while she wears high heels and squeezes into the subway, staying up until the early hours of the morning to work on project reports.
Late one night after working overtime, she met him in the convenience store downstairs of the company. He was helping the clerk repair a malfunctioning coffee machine. His fingertips were stained by coffee, but his smile was more dazzling than when he was in college. He said: "Su Qingyuan, no matter how accurate your life equation is, it still misses the variable of 'accident'." Later she found out that when she was immersed in doing questions in the library in those years, he was always sitting on a seat not far away, writing lyrics about her - it turned out that the two parallel lines that never seemed to intersect had long been invisible to each other.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
