The life of programmer Lin He suddenly came to a halt in middle age. Unemployment and his daughter's serious illness forced him to return to the small town and look for hope in his grandfather's abandoned clock shop. From typing code to repairing gears, from annual salary of one million to worrying about tens of dollars. Everyone laughed at me, even I doubted myself. Until that dusty old watch made a crisp ticking sound again in my hand. They said, I repair clocks. Only later did I realize that what I was cultivating was the broken memories of countless people, especially my own, that period of suspended life.
(Keywords: mid-life crisis, counterattack, craftsmanship, healing, realistic struggle)
