Did you receive that invitation?
That invitation from the past, announcing the end of everything. Shen Buyan received it. He dressed up to attend, perfectly played the role of "respectable old classmate", and then returned to Shanghai with a completely empty heart.
A job at a top investment bank, an apartment with a river view, and regular and restrained solitude. He tried to establish a new order next to the embers called "the past" by sorting out old things, brewing coffee, and learning to identify the flavors of beans from different production areas.
However, memories are like a flood, always coming unexpectedly late at night. The sunrise on the sea that Qingdao had not seen ten years ago, the extinguished eyes of another girl in the snowy night... They never disappeared, they just became silent bones in his body.
Until he collided with a woman named Lin Wei at the airport.
This is a story about "after". After the grand farewell ceremony, after the hills where no one is waiting, after all the fantasies about "what if" are burned out.
After that, real life begins.
Sit down by the embers and learn to make yourself a serious pot of coffee.
When the tide hits, know that someone understands what you're going through.
Then, perhaps, in rebuilding the order of life,
We can finally learn how to love again and how to be loved again.
If there is an unreachable sea in your heart, if you have stood beside a piece of ashes and are at a loss -
This story is written for you. It does not promise sunshine, but points to glimmers of light.
