At 28, medical illustrator Lin Can can use her pen to render the contours of the human body with precision, but she cannot draw the shape of a heart shattered by a seven-year relationship. For more than a hundred days and nights after the breakup, she has been trapped in the anatomical diagrams of her memories. Then her best friend gives her the “When Dreams Wake” app, and at midnight she tumbles into one absurd blind-date dream after another. Slowly, she sees that beneath her scarred wounds lies a self that has never truly been held.
At 36, investment queen Lu Lin controls the flow of hundreds of billions, yet cannot make a relationship last more than six months. The names of her twelve ex-boyfriends are nothing more than a few bad debts awaiting write-off on her personal balance sheet. She has long since put a stop-loss mechanism in place for love, until one day a pair of eyes just like those in “First Love, Not Quite” brings her cold risk-management system crashing down. When an iceberg collides with the embers of an old dream, is it a dangerous sign that she is about to repeat the past, or a crack in her defenses through which new light can finally shine?
Two souls wandering among the ruins of their relationships meet by chance at the threshold of dreams where reality and illusion intertwine. As Lin Can learns to draw tenderness while dissecting herself, and Lu Lin learns to write an open-ended check for the stirrings of her heart, the courage they lost in their dreams is quietly coming together in reality to form the shape of true love.
