"A Crack in Time" is a novel that depicts modern love and workplace dilemmas. It tells the story of a pair of lovers who gradually deviate from each other in the collision of ideals and reality through flashback techniques.
The story begins in the spring of 2024 at an abandoned construction project site in Nancheng. Jiang Hai, an engineer working on a construction site, and Lu Xun, an elite woman who has emerged in the financial circle, meet again on the ruins of reinforced concrete. The former lovers can now only meet each other through business cooperation, and their love gradually breaks apart in the cracks of time.
As the story goes back, readers gradually uncover the emotional history of the two people. From the quarrel on the rainy night in 2023, to the separation in the graduation season of 2020, to the sweetness and contradiction in college, their love swayed between the innocence of campus and the complexity of the workplace. Jiang Hai faced the hardships of concrete and steel at the construction site in Nancheng; while Lu Xun was lost in the exchange of interests and the unspoken rules of the workplace in the Beidu Financial District. The distance between the two is getting wider and wider under the pressure of reality, and the vows they once made have become blurred with the passage of time.
The novel takes a sentence from "The Little Prince" as a clue: "The time you spend on your rose makes your rose so important." The love between Jiang Hai and Lu Xun is like that rose, which was once unique, but gradually withered in the cracks of time.
"Love and Cracks in the Cracks of Time" is not only a love novel, but also a work that reflects the struggles of contemporary young people in the workplace and emotions. It allows readers to feel the beauty of love
