There are two kinds of lies in the world: one is a misunderstanding that everyone believes to be true, and the other is a lie that deceives one's own sincerity.
The youth of Lin Zhi and Lu Chenxing were enveloped by the former. In high school, she was a quiet girl who was the top scorer in the market, and he was a physics genius who was recommended to a prestigious school. The two of them were called "insulators" in the class. Her notebook said "Lu Chenxing, a nuisance" and the back of his competition paper was marked "Lin Zhi, too noisy". In the graduation photo, they were the farthest apart and clearly separated.
The latter has quietly grown over the years. Years later, Lin Zhi became a rational lawyer, and Lu Chenxing transformed into a smooth business elite. At the class reunion, when everyone was teasing about their discord, the two smiled and agreed, perfectly playing the role of old friends who were relieved. No one knows that Lin Zhi hides the illustration account of "Scavenging Stars in the Wasteland", which is her only remaining romance; and all Lu Chenxing's irrational investment collections point to this mysterious painter.
Parallel lines eventually meet. In a cross-border merger and acquisition case, she was the other party's legal counsel, and he was the acquirer's representative, and they were facing each other at the negotiation table. At the top art charity auction, the sky-high price painting "Observer" anonymously donated by Lu Chenxing was slowly unveiled. It was signed "Star Picking in the Wasteland" - under the vast universe in the painting, there are eyes filled with starlight behind the lenses.
When public misunderstanding and private self-deception are on the verge of collapse at the same time, they realize that the misaligned heartbeats in youth have long turned into the sound of misaligned gears in the adult world. The price of repairing this regret may be to overturn the entire life that each other has built.
