She is forty-nine years old.
Physically, I have been without water and electricity for a whole year, and the door in my heart is almost rusted by time.
People of the same age around me went on a blind date to talk about pensions, family resources, and conditions, and turned the rest of their lives into a business deal. Lin Furyue didn't. She is the creative director of an advertising company with an annual salary of one million. She has raised her daughter alone. She has rejected countless suitors in the past sixteen years - not because she is picky, but because she cannot find the feeling of "being at ease when we are together".
Relatives laughed at her behind her back for being pretentious, but she just said one sentence to silence everyone: "As you get older, do you think you're only qualified to talk about conditions, not feelings?"
Until that man showed up.
His name is Gu Yuzhe, he is fifty-two years old, a famous architect, taciturn, and has a temperament just like the buildings he designed - heavy, structured, and able to withstand time. He had been widowed for eight years and had never approached any woman until he saw her in the corner of a blind date dinner.
It's not the heartbeat of love at first sight, but something deeper - a pair of eyes, and the squabbles are connected.
However, what stands between the two is the entanglement of her ex-husband, the strife in the workplace, the resistance of her daughter, and the world's deepest prejudice and ridicule towards "dating at fifty."
Roses never know the season.
It just waits until the soil is right and the people are right, and then it blooms harder than anyone else in one breath.
This is a story about waiting and worth it. It's about a woman who spent sixteen years of sobriety and stubbornness in exchange for a late but never-absent love.
——I would rather be pure alone than make do with anyone else. At forty-nine years old, she insists on waiting for the right person.
Nice, engaging story!