She helps a socially anxious boy give someone his first flower, helps an old man who hasn’t touched a piano in ten years hear his hands again, and helps a lonely old woman finally receive the phone call she’s waited three years for. One by one, she lights up the lamps in the neighborhood, and the Warmth Score rises from a faint glow to a roaring hearth.
But some people are consumed by envy: an ex-boyfriend chasing online attention, relatives who leech off her, and capital eyeing her “good person” brand. They come one after another, trying to snatch the lights away.
Fortunately, the quiet, deft-handed Mr. Jiang from the old knickknack shop at the end of the alley is always half a step behind her. “Don’t take on the old lady’s burden for someone else.”
It isn’t until one day that she realizes he recognized her long before she ever thought he could.
