After 32-year-old Lin Xu was diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decided to hide everything from his lover Shen Zhiwei. He spent three years laying out watertight lies in trivial daily life: the medical certificate torn up in the early morning, the yogurt disappearing from the refrigerator, and the aluminum foil crane folded late at night. The words "I love you" are engraved on the wings of each paper crane, arranged on the bedside like a silent countdown.
Shen Zhiwei thought it was just the seven-year itch. It wasn't until three seconds after the elevator door closed that she received his last voice message - in the background was the ticking sound of the hospital monitor. While sorting out her belongings, she found a memo he had hidden in his phone three years ago: "What will Zhiwei do if I leave?"
It turns out that he had already rehearsed parting. It turns out that every day she thought was ordinary was the rest of his life that he carefully calculated.
This is a painful story built with tender details. About how one person tried his best to hide despair in the folds of life; about how another person retrieved the evidence of love from the broken daily life after the truth was revealed.
When the paper crane burns to ashes, when the echo sinks into the blood, we finally understand: the most affectionate farewell is to make you believe that I have never left.
Intention: Love is to pave all the roads for you in silence, and then let you go to a future without me.