Chen Mo once thought that his life was like the never-ending sound of keyboards in the office building - the reports were thrown on the table casually, and the responsibilities of his colleagues were handed over to him. He was like a soaked sponge, silently absorbing all the grievances. He would not dare to leave until the stars came out after get off work.
Until that Wednesday, Su Qing appeared in the tea room. She squatted on the floor and wiped the stubborn coffee stains, saying, "Just wipe off today's stains." She handed over a pot of squid and said, "Take a look at it when you are tired, it will make your eyes feel better." Her mint-scented wind blew away the dust that had accumulated in his heart for three years.
From not daring to say "no" to the director to daring to argue for my job; from staying in a rental house and eating cold bread, to sitting in the park watching pigeons flying, and going to the old neighborhood to drink latte; from thinking that life is an American without sugar, to tasting popsicles in The sweetness that melts at the fingertips - Chen Mo slowly discovered that it was never the earth-shattering events that changed his life, but someone who made him believe that ordinary people like him deserved a window sill warmed by the sun and the courage to say "I do" to life.
This is a story about being "illuminated": when a crack opens in the gray life, light will come in, the wind will come in, and the self hidden under the shell of an "ordinary white-collar worker" will slowly wake up.
