When she was twenty-eight years old, Li Yan met Lu Chen in the elevator.
Five years ago, he disappeared into the crowd without a word of explanation, leaving her alone at the station to wait for the last train. Five years later, he was the representative of Party B and she was the director of Party A. They were doing business in the conference room as if they had never met before.
But convenience stores late at night, emergency rooms, and umbrellas on rainy days always reminded her that there were things she couldn't get through.
Lu Chen said that it wasn't that he didn't love back then, it was that he couldn't love. He said he was sorry for five years and worked hard for five years, just so that one day he could stand in front of her and pay off what he owed.
But Li Yan is no longer the girl who waited until the early morning for news about him. She learned to remain calm, learned to act nonchalant when they met again, and learned to take a step back when he approached.
How can it be so easy for adults to love and hate? Testing, pushing and pulling, hesitating to speak, every step is like stepping on the tip of a knife. They try to reunite, try to get to know each other again, and try to put the broken mirror back piece by piece - but no one knows whether the pieced-together mirror can still reflect the former appearance.
This is a story about missing and waiting, and also a story about how adult love grows back from the ruins.
