Lin Jianxia's life was once a carefully drawn blueprint for "a socialite in Shanghai".
Until she met Zhou Xubai in college, a top student from a small northern town who entered Shanghai with a full scholarship.
He calmly exposed the flaws in her group work and saw through the fragility of her perfectionism at a glance. He took her to take the midnight bus to eat at a roadside stall, and told her: "Lin Jianxia, you don't need to live like a beautiful specimen."
When the olive branch from the family and the smooth road to go abroad are offered at the same time, the ultimate choice question of "stay or leave", "dependence or independence" really comes to the surface.
Intent: It is a love story on the surface, but in essence it is a growth fable about "identity loosening" and "self-construction".