He Jie believes that the most despairing thing in life is that she cannot find a job after graduating from college, and that her mother is seriously ill and cannot afford a deposit of 30,000 yuan.
Until she stepped through the door in northern Myanmar.
Her mobile phone was confiscated and her ID card was seized. She was forced to pick up the scammers and lie word by word to the stranger on the other side of the screen.
She escaped and was beaten to death.
She believed it and was completely betrayed.
She resigned to her fate and lived numbly like a walking zombie.
Until a man named Pei Jian sat next to her.
He never said a word, he just pushed over half a glass of water when she couldn't hold it anymore, blocked her with his shoulder when she was doubted, and in the darkness where no one dared to look up, he lightly tapped a code with his fingertips——
"Wait."
He Jie didn't know what he was waiting for, who he was, or the signal device hidden in his collar that connected him to the outside world.
All she knew was that in this hell on earth, there was one person who refused to die just like her.
But when the light finally comes, when the ruins of the explosion are uncovered——
Everyone told her: Pei Jian does not exist.
He was the salvation she created for herself when she was dying.
It was the light imagined by her unwillingness to die.
He Jie spent his life proving that that person really existed.
With an empty chair, two pairs of dishes, and a dream that will never wake up.
Until the hair turns gray, until the dying moment, until that voice sounds again in the darkness——
"I'm here to pick you up. Go home."
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