Returning to his hometown ten years later, Ness encountered Shen Yanqing crouching in front of the loom in the homespun cloth workshop that was about to close down.
When she was fourteen years old, she was a poor apprentice and he was the son of the master. She hides her love, but he swallows his sincerity. An eavesdropping incident on a rainy night and the words "I know" made her flee overnight, leaving behind a wooden comb for arranging hair.
Now that they are reunited, he still has the old wooden comb in his hand. There were only two of them left in the workshop, and the air was filled with cotton wool and unspoken words.
If the warp is arranged too tightly, it will break; if it is too loose, it will jump. She always pushed too hard and he never dared to hold on tighter. Moisture causes the weaving threads to stick and knot, the hand threading is uneven, and the cloth texture is disordered - just like in the past ten years, they clearly have each other in their hearts, but they can't weave a complete piece of cloth.
He hid a piece of scrap cloth and kept it at the bottom of the box for ten years. Every tangled thread was an unspoken message of retention.
Manage the thread as well as the mind. Only when the threads are straightened can the cloth be complete; only when the heart is confessed can love be complete.
The sincerity that is hidden when one is young and has low self-esteem will last a lifetime if one misses it. But this time, the loom is still there and the threads are still there. Can they connect the broken warp threads one by one?
