Tantai Yue is a beacon that suddenly lights up on the dark sea after Su Tingbai's divorce, a diving instructor obsessed with the deep sea.
He kept describing to her the beauty of forty meters underwater, but she was afraid of water, afraid of suffocation, and even more afraid of the uncontrollable sinking.
She finally understood that no matter how beautiful the blue was, it was never the scenery she wanted in life.
What he can give is always limited.
When she needs companionship, he retreats to the position of "friend" and continues to draw on her empathy, understanding, and perspective, but is unable to respond to the emotional belonging she truly desires.
She could see through the entrepreneurial risks of his diving business, but for a time she couldn't see through the functionalism behind his warmth.
What he wants is a relationship that is relaxed and not tiring, and what she wants is a complete and serious acceptance.
He could clearly calculate the input and output of each emotional value, and he also accurately calculated that her status as a "divorce with a child" would never allow her to enter his family's future.
When the single mother's rationality finally defeated her sensibility, Su Tingbai decided——
She no longer needs a piece of driftwood to sink her.
She wants to go ashore to pursue the steadiness and beauty of having her feet on the ground and bathing in the sun.
I have loved, but it can only go so far.
Intent: This is a story about "boundaries" and "valuation". Through the emotional game between a single mother and an "entrepreneurial brother", it explores the common issues faced by modern people in relationships and careers: how to accurately evaluate the value of an investment (whether it is feelings, time or money) in a world full of temptations and noise, and have the courage and wisdom to stop losses in time, turn around and "go ashore".
