Reason has its boundaries, until she met his "useless" old things.
Shen Xin, a top M&A lawyer, is good at evaluating all risks and benefits, but cannot evaluate cafe owner Lin Yan. He guarded the house full of "tatters" - rusty school badges, blurry old photos, a bowl of outdated rice dumplings, and the sentence: "Life is not a case, does it also need a closing argument?"
When Lin Yan's "Memory Fortress" faced the crisis of demolition, she had to intervene. On one side are the cold and efficient business rules, on the other are the traces of time that he insists on guarding. She fought for him at the negotiation table, and he held up the broken windows for her on rainy nights.
Until one day she discovered that a variable named "Lin Yan" could no longer be deleted in her precision-operated world model. And what they snatched back together was not only the old things and space, but also the morning light of the rest of their lives that they dared not explain to each other.
This is a story about protection, memory and love. When the two worlds collide fiercely, can they find a place for "remember" in the ruins?
Concept: On the surface, the novel is about guarding a cafe and some old things, but in fact it is a metaphor for the "useless" but precious things in each of us - perhaps a hobby that cannot bring any profit, an untimely ideal, a slightly clumsy way of doing things, and some "slow" habits that are incompatible with the fast pace. In the story of Lin Yan and Shen Xin, what we see is how to place the "impractical" but true self in a utilitarian world. This is a story packed with urban romance and full of realistic concerns. It gently reminds us: life is not a never-ending merger and acquisition. The real abundance lies in whether we can leave a warm light for the "old things" and "slow time" in our lives. And this may be the gentlest and most tenacious way for us to fight against the tide of the times.
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