Nian Qiu is an asphalt repair technician in the urban underground pipe network. Zhou Yutang, pipe network project technician. Three years ago, they were a pair of lovers spending a rainy night cuddling in the pump room; three years later, they looked at each other again across a dug trench, with a layer of old asphalt in the middle that would never return.
When asphalt paving is too thick, the road surface settles, and when it is too thin, it cannot withstand the crushing of heavy vehicles, causing leakage in the pipe network; the temperature difference between day and night causes the new pavement layer to crack into spider webs, and rainwater erosion causes the joints to delaminate, leakage, and corrodes the pipe fittings. He used his hands to mend the city's most secret wounds, but could not mend the rift between the two that was torn apart by time and distance.
The loneliness of assignments, emergency repairs, and late-night construction sites. Every reunion carries the smell of asphalt, and every separation leaves behind unspoken words. When Zhou Yutang stepped out of the air and fell into a three-meter-deep hollow in the road, Nianqiu rushed back from the neighboring city overnight, only to realize that if some wounds were not filled in time, the entire road would eventually collapse.
This is a story about urban infrastructure field workers - they repair the roads and themselves.
