Shen Wanqing is the youngest partner of a family law firm in Jicheng. She is good at ending other people's emotional problems, but she locks her heart in an old injury from three years ago. She didn't believe in marriage or longevity until she met Gu Yian.
Gu Yian is a designer who came to Jicheng from Nanxi to work hard. She has a decent boyfriend and a step-by-step life, but she feels a vague vacancy in countless late nights-until she confronts Shen Wanqing in the conference room over an inheritance case.
One is a calm lawyer who is used to controlling the overall situation, and the other is a gentle but stubborn person who controls details. They went from being dissatisfied with each other to seeing the cracks and light under each other's armor during the days and nights of working together on projects. The relationship grows quietly and has not yet been named. The reality has arrived - the boyfriend's proposal, the return of the ex, and their own fears and hesitations, making them retreat hastily at the peak of ambiguity.
Misunderstandings, silence, and individual struggles. Shen Wanqing watched in the court how the twenty-two-year relationship between a pair of same-sex lovers fell apart, and suddenly understood every word that Gu Yi'an had not finished. Gu Yi'an dug out old manuscripts in his hometown and found that every city outline in his painting was the skylight outside the clear window of Shen Wanqing that day when he first saw it.
It took them three years to understand: love is not a talent, it is a choice; staying is harder than falling in love, but it is worth it.
This is a story about two imperfect people, how to get around the scars in their hearts and clumsily learn to love and stay. In an era when same-sex marriage was legal but not entirely smooth, they had been hiding each other's light for a long time and finally decided not to hide it anymore.
