Since she was eleven years old, Gu Wan has been able to see the "unspoken words" floating above people's heads - those gray-white words, which are more real than any language. She worked as an editor for six years and learned to be silent, learn to bear, and learn to pretend not to know.
Until intern Shen Mu appeared. He didn't say much, but he could tell at a glance that her pothos was dying; he always wrote "Don't talk nonsense" repeatedly in his heart; in the heavy rain, where his tears fell to the ground, a small bunch of untimely green grew.
Two people with "super powers" exchanged secrets for the first time in the tea room. One sees words, the other grows plants. They each hid for more than ten years, and finally no longer had to carry it alone.
This is not a story about salvation, but a story about "being seen" - some words arrive long before they are spoken.
