Thirty Years Old, Picked up an Englishman

Thirty-year-old Xie Muchun feels like his life has been put on pause—unemployment, divorce, and even his daughter's birthday is mixed up in the lunar and solar calendars. He stayed in a cramped rental house, staring blankly at reminder messages and unopened fitness equipment. When his cigarette case was empty, he rubbed the lighter in his palm, as if he could squeeze some strength to survive from the warmth. Until a message popped up on the local app, from a British boy named Emil. Twenty-year-old with blond hair and a height of 1.9 Meters, his blue eyes look like sunshine when he smiles, but he says that he "likes the storytelling sense of mature men." He remembered the whiskey with three cubes of ice in Xie Mushun's circle of friends, and knew that his daughter liked strawberry cake. Even when Xie Mushun was so drunk that he vomited all over him, he could still say with a smile that "it's more elegant than hugging a street lamp." A drunken loss of control caused two people ten years apart to crash into each other's lives. Xie Muchun thought he was an expired can, but this young man with a citrus scent picked it up and said he wanted to taste the story hidden inside. "Same-sex marriage is not allowed in China, but you can try falling in love first." "I found your daughter's cake recipe." When a down-and-out social animal encounters the passion of youth, a beam of uninvited light suddenly shines into the expired life.