Three years ago, Shen Du was chosen by Gu Yanzhi when he was cleaning glasses in a bar.
"You look like a person." Gu Yanzhi said, "Follow me, fifty thousand a month."
Grandma's surgery fee is still 80,000 yuan short. Shen Du signed the agreement, moved into the cold apartment, and put on a row of identical white shirts. He learned to drink American coffee, cut his hair short, and lived like another person - a person named Xu Mingzhe, a person who would always live in Gu Yanzhi's heart.
Shen Du told himself that this was work. He just needs to stay there quietly, put a glass of hot milk when Gu Yanzhi works overtime until late at night, pretend not to hear when he calls the wrong name when he is drunk, and show up when he needs "someone there".
But he couldn't control his heart.
He began to secretly take pictures of Gu Yanzhi - his side face at work, his frown when drinking coffee, and his relaxed expression when he fell asleep. More than a thousand photos, each with a date and a line of small text written on the back. He thought he could continue like this and be a silent, competent substitute.
Until that rainy night, when Gu Yanzhi was drunk, he held his face and called someone else's name.
Shen Du finally understood: the living can never defeat the dead.
He's gone. He left behind a thousand photos in an iron box and a letter: "Gu Yanzhi, I don't want to wear a white shirt anymore."
He thought leaving would be the end. But Gu Yanzhi frantically searched for him for three months, searched all the places he had visited, and opened the photo that had been held back for three years—only to realize that what he was obsessed with was just a misunderstanding.
And the person who truly loved him has been pushed away by him.
