That Unfinished Moment of Tenderness

I'll make it up to you with eighteen kisses, and then we'll be the same age.

Jin'e Yu, later renamed Jia Yu, is crushed by life but refuses to accept her fate. She divorces and leaves with nothing, then is tricked by her cousin into moving to a Hainan nuclear power town, where she works as a cashier in a small restaurant. She thinks she'll never fall in love again.

At her most desperate, she meets Jin Bo, a business owner who teaches her how to handle clients and keep accounts. His company is on the brink of collapse. When their feelings run deep, he tells her, "Let's talk when you're feeling better." She tries desperately to get better, but time and again she falls into the abyss of fate.

Between them stand age, family, and responsibility: a destiny they can't escape.

She says, "People whose families were broken up by a mistress often end up becoming mistresses themselves. I want to be yours."

Two people who love each other but cannot be together:

One wants her, but can't give her what she needs.

The other wants to give herself, but can't wait.

Through her tears, Jia Yu says:

"If there's another life, let's love each other at a different time."

The Five Blessings Company, an empire built on farming, collapses with a crash, and Jin Bo leaves Hainan in sorrow.

On the west coast, she tears up the scraps of paper bearing the poems he wrote for her, scattering them across the sea through her tears.

All those regrets of a love that could never be became the most painful farewell on the west coast.

In this life, they could not be together.

In the next, come to me sooner!

Hainan, bear witness!

| Modern romance | Relationships | Long-running foreshadowing | Heart-wrenching ending