(Slow-paced, community, healing and redemption, slice of life) Wu Yang is thirty and has never been in a relationship.
It's not that he doesn't want one. He's afraid. Afraid he'll hurt someone the way his father did, and afraid she'll be abandoned by fate the way his mother was.
Yang Yi is twenty-six and has never dated either.
It's not that nobody has pursued her. She simply doesn't know how to begin. She's good at warming the whole world, but can't warm herself.
His life motto is “avoid risk”: intimacy is a high-risk process, and the only way to avoid risk is never to run it.
Her principle in life is “give”: her parents are doctors who are often away from home, so from an early age she learned that making everyone happy meant giving them love.
Until that rainy day in late autumn.
She's the community's most enthusiastic little ray of sunshine; he's a distant homebody who just quit his job and moved back in with his family.
She pulled him in to make up the numbers. He gave her his name so he could leave sooner.
Neither of them expected that this would become the red thread tying them together:
He learned to send her messages first, to sneakily stir the dumplings in the pot for her on the day winter began, and to admit, “After the Frost's Descent comes Yang Yi.”
She learned to turn down unreasonable requests, to let herself be vulnerable in front of him, and to accept without reservation that special affection meant “for you alone.”
This isn't love at first sight. It's the true story of two people who don't know how to love, slowly carving each other into their very bones amid the daily routines of life.
From “afraid to love” to “unable to live apart,” they prove with time that love isn't a curse passed down through genes, nor a lottery ticket won by luck.
It's two ordinary people, clumsily writing each other into the code of their lives.
