At eleven o'clock in the night, the whole street was asleep, and only the "One Bowl Noodle" on the corner was still lit.
On the night when Lin Wan failed in her fourth blind date and was judged as "boring", she opened the door. The boss, Cheng Ye, ordered her a bowl of beef brisket noodles - more coriander, no green onions, slightly spicy, and secretly added an extra soft-boiled egg.
"Those who are lovelorn should finish their noodles and drink all their soup."
One bowl of noodles for two people. One is guarding a sip of old soup that has never been turned off since his father's generation, and the other has been neglected by this city for too long.
Later they got together. He said: Are you willing to drink this bowl of noodles from me for the rest of your life?
Later, he pushed her away with his own hands without explaining a word. She was blamed for plagiarism and fell into the bottom of life; he was guarding an old soup that he could not hold on to in front of the demolition bulldozers.
Two years later, she saw that warm yellow lamp again in the most inconspicuous alley in the city.
The soup is still hot. He is still waiting.
But what she didn't know was that the day he pushed her away, what he was thinking was: "I can't let you sink with me."
It took him half his life to say "It will last a lifetime".
