On the renovation site of an old community, water supply and drainage technician Wen Qilin reunited with his partner Lin Shutong, who had left without saying goodbye five years ago. She was the supervisor of Party A, and he was the construction team leader. They were trapped next to the corroded pipes in the same bidding section. The anti-corrosion tape can cover the rust on copper and iron, but it cannot cover the cracks in people's hearts - when her fingers pass over the surface of the tape, she will subconsciously check the tension value, and when he stays up late to make repairs, the Tieguanyin she bought back then will still be soaked in the thermos cup. During countless late nights of repair work side by side, the roar of the sewage pump drowned out too many unspoken words. On the day when her transfer notice came out, a section of the pipe was dismantled during the last emergency repair trip, and the inner layer still had the wrapping method he used five years ago. Those unsent construction logs were full of words: "We used tape to sew up the city's pipe scars, but we tied ourselves into two pieces of old pipes that couldn't be connected - the specifications were obviously the same, but there was a section of time in between that could never be welded back together.
