In the morning light of Huaian Lane in the old city, there are two completely different figures hidden.
Shen Yanci is an ancient book restorer at "Yan Zhitang". His fingertips touch thousand-year-old paper, and his body is wrapped in the cold and alienating fragrance of ink, like the cold stars hanging in the night sky. He is used to walking alone, and even his life is dyed in a tone of black, white and gray. In his childhood, his parents ignored him due to his obsession with restoration, which made him always have a slight resistance to "liveliness".
Until Xia Yaoyang ran into this old alley.
This newly graduated art student, wearing a bright yellow T-shirt, holding a paint tray and a sketchbook, wants to open a cultural and creative store next door to "Yanzhitang". He is like the sun at noon in midsummer, with two pear dimples in his smile, and a sweet orange flavor in his speech. He can draw the vitality of the old locust tree in the alley into the paper, and can also stir up the warmth of Shen Yanci's life that has been silent for many years.
From the panic when the paint knocked over the ink fragrance when they first met, to the tacit understanding of sharing a bowl of porridge in the morning light; from the thrill of protecting the painting together on a rainy night, to the determination to fight against demolition side by side to protect the old alley. Xia Yaoyang slowly melted the ice in Shen Yanci's heart with his fresh enthusiasm; Shen Yanci also taught Xia Yaoyang to settle and persevere with his calm gentleness.
When the patterns of ancient books meet hand-painted cultural creations, when the cold stars fall into the hot summer, the bluestone road in Huaian Lane witnesses their two-way journey - from neighbors to friends, from each working alone, to joining hands to merge the "Inkstone Zhitang" and the cultural and creative store into "Yanyangju", half of which is a restoration station filled with the fragrance of ink, and the other half is a colorful cultural and creative rack.
Together they fought against plagiarism, fought for the preservation of old alleys, and watched the four seasons pass under the locust tree. In the end, Shen Yanci was no longer a lonely Hanxing, and Xia Yaoyang also found the safest home.
This is a slow love hidden in the smoke and smoke of an old alley, about warmth and healing, about perseverance and companionship, about how two completely different people can become the most indispensable light in each other's lives.
Purpose: Using the encounter between a "cool ancient book restorer" and an "enthusiastic art student" as a carrier, it shows how two people with original regrets or angular personalities heal each other in the fireworks of the old alley - Xia Yaoyang melts Shen Yanci's alienation with fresh enthusiasm, and Shen Yanci gives Xia Yaoyang confidence with his calmness and perseverance, interpreting "good love is when each other becomes a more complete self."