"The floor was covered with broken porcelain pieces, but I secretly looked up at a beam of light"
In his sophomore year of high school, Lu Yuzhou knocked over the white porcelain cup he made in handicraft class.
Shen Nian squatted in the empty classroom, picking up the seventeen pieces of broken porcelain one by one, and worked hard for seventeen days. She didn't know that he stood at the end of the corridor every afternoon and watched, and she didn't know that the broken cup had half a sentence he wrote to herself engraved on it.
On the seventeenth day, he opened the door and walked in, spreading the secrets she had hidden for seventeen days in the sun.
Start with a broken cup and end up on a windowsill filled with kintsugi vessels. She helped him put together the broken things all his life, and he handed the beam of light into her hand.
Secret love·Growth·Healing. About how broken things can look better than before, about someone willing to squat down and pick up all the cracks for you.
"There were broken pieces of porcelain on the ground, but I secretly looked up at a beam of light."
