Love Next Year

32-Year-old Lin Wanxing received a strange text message late at night: "Designer Lin, you always bite the cap of your pen when drawing drawings. I will bring you a box of strawberry-flavored lip balm tomorrow." The sender was Xu Yanzhi, the resident architect sent by the partner. This boy, who is nine years younger than her and smiles like a little sun, is standing at the door of the construction site holding a thermos cup, his eyes reflecting the light of her overtime work. From renovating an old house to sharing an apartment, from clients and Party B to sharing the same bed, the age difference brings not only "my sister needs ibuprofen" during her menstrual period and "my brother can play games all night", but also the temperature difference hidden in the details - she is used to checking the door lock three times before going to bed. , He would re-wrap her with the quilt he had kicked off at two o'clock in the morning; when she was arguing in Party A's conference room, he silently wrote down all her design insistence; when she was frustrated by gender discrimination in the workplace, he used architectural models to spell out a three-dimensional love letter of "Evening Stars Will Always Shine". But the storm of reality is always more urgent than love. When Lin Wanxing discovered that Xu Yanzhi's graduation travel guide said "Take my sister to see the Aurora", when Xu Yanzhi was mistaken for Lin Wanxing's student at the parent-teacher meeting, and when the headhunting company hinted that the "promotion bottleneck for 35-year-old female designers" and the "entrepreneurial risks of young architects" were both in front of them, the nine-year age difference was no longer a joke when acting like a baby, but an ice field between ideal and reality. "Are you afraid that I won't survive the winter like the pot of blue snowflakes you raised?" Xu Yanzhi pushed the hot milk in front of her late at night when she was working overtime, and rubbed the black and blue under her eyes with his fingertips, "But the blue snowflakes will climb on your window sill and grow into a wall to protect you from the wind."