Searching for Clues in the World Where I Love You

Fang Zihan and Du Jia are both post-80s, having met as high school students. Over the twenty years that followed, they repeatedly drifted between friendship and love. Du Jia always believed that “more than friends, but not quite lovers” was the best kind of relationship between a man and a woman, and turned down Fang Zihan’s confessions several times. Under the pressure of reality, they wavered and hurt each other, drew close, then drifted apart again.

This generation, born in the 1980s, has weathered wave after wave of change. Who among them lost sight of themselves? And who does love come for? Is love a feeling, an emotion, or a lifelong commitment to stay by someone’s side? Is friendship about helping someone in their hour of need, or adding joy to an already happy life?