Time Passes Gently, and I Have You for the Rest of My Life

[Urban slice of life · period setting · campus · sweet romance · urban · heartwarming · slow-paced]

In the autumn of 2000, Lin Wan and Shen Zhishi meet on a university campus. One is quiet and reserved, the other warm and sunny. Like two lines that once ran parallel, they intersect as the plane tree leaves fall.

From a shy college crush to working side by side after graduation; from late-night instant noodles in a rented apartment to the first lamp in a home of their own; from two people to three, then four; from 2000 to 2026: over twenty-six years, they experience every stage of life together: studying, job hunting, promotions, buying a home, getting married, having children, raising them, and growing old.

There are no earth-shattering events or tearjerking melodramas. Just the small, real, and heartwarming moments of everyday life: a bowl of noodles late at night, an umbrella on a rainy day, a cup of warm water quietly left by the bed after an argument, and a hand that never lets go through all the long years.

This is a story about “love in ordinary days.”