This is a story about the unfinished heartbeats at both ends of the screen, the misaligned breathing in the elevator, and the regrets written and deleted in the dialog box.
When the rational and restrained human resources lady meets the young man who is trying his best but is always one step behind, behind those seemingly sweet pushes and pulls, there are hidden insurmountable distances. He carefully calculated every step he took, and she carefully guarded every heartbeat. Everyone saw his heat, but she pretended not to see it. It was never him that she avoided, but herself who would be doomed once she admitted it. A step and a half is politeness, a boundary, and the rest of our lives that will never come.
Purpose: Through the ambiguous push and pull of a pair of working men and women, it explores the inner fear of modern people when facing love: we long to be close, but are more afraid of getting hurt, so we build high walls with reason and avoidance, and in the end we may miss the most sincere emotions.