It took Lu Tinglan and Shen Huaixu ten years to learn one thing - not to hide.
At the age of twenty, he handed her a spare key to the dormitory by the lakeside of the university and said, "I seem to like you, but there is no need to answer." In the next ten years, he built ancient towns, painted old houses, and painted 72 south-facing windows on the earthen walls in Guizhou, Gansu, and Fujian. The three words in the lower right corner were always written and erased. And she made documentaries, won awards, traveled everywhere, turned everything off and never looked back.
Until she was thirty-one years old, she opened the door at an awards reception in Zhoushan, and he stood behind the curtain, waiting for a full two hours, in exchange for a three-second handshake and "Long time no see."
Then he did the most un-architect-like thing in his life - he turned "by the way" into a precision project. Check the protection list, write a plan, and pave a road that completely overlaps with her shooting route three months in advance. Every time she stopped, he was there. Every time she said "Why are you here?", He replied - "By the way."
It wasn't until a heavy rain trapped him in the ancient town of Zhouzhuang for two whole days that he finally said the words he had been holding back for ten years.
"I'm not taking it easy anymore."
The two timelines intersect. Now on the line, she was filming a documentary along the coastline, and he followed behind with the drawings; on the past line, she missed it six times, each time getting closer by a centimeter. From "no need to answer" to "by the way" to "no more" - a story about how two people who are too good at one person learn to make one person become two people.
