Taboo Middle-Aged Redemption

Deep in the city of Tokyo, the decent middle-aged architect Osamu Tsumura has been silent for many years in a marriage that has long been deserted and respected as ice. At a seminar on ancient building restoration, he met Japanese paper craftsman Shirakawa Mio. She is also trapped in a marriage that is rational and cold, and no one understands her heart for a long time. The two met frequently due to projects, chatting in teahouses, ancient temples and old streets, and slowly got a glimpse of the spiritual wasteland beneath each other's glamorous shells. This feeling that shouldn't have arisen quietly sprouted, and the heartbeat and guilt kept tugging at each other. They are greedy for a moment of soul connection, but they are also afraid of the collapse of secular morality, and they repeatedly wander on the edge of taboos. Lust is not the whole story. It is a short escape from mediocre life by two lonely middle-aged people, looking for the fleeting light in the dark corridor. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.