During the two years as neighbors, the only communication between Lin Shu and Jiang Nan was to peek into each other's lives through their own peepholes. One is a neurosurgeon who no longer believes in love, and the other is an agricultural technology worker who bears the trauma of his original family and has never been in love. They are two parallel lines that never intersect.
Until late one night, Lin Shu knocked on Jiang Nan's door...
The next morning, she said, "I don't want to be in a relationship. But if it's just sex, I can."
Jiang Nan was silent and replied: "Okay."
A ridiculous agreement led to the most intimate entanglement between two people who did not understand love. They fit together like a perfect match in bed, but carefully abide by the "no feelings" rule off the bed.
But the body can lie, but the heart cannot.
When the pot of "Alfrey" on the balcony bloomed for the second time, they realized that something had already gone out of control when they knocked on the door that night.
Intention: In this world, there are many people who are not born unable to love. They have just been hurt, let down, and consumed by love, and they never dare to love again. They wear loneliness as armor, use indifference to mark a safe zone, and repeatedly warn themselves: If you don't expect it, you won't get hurt. This is the case for Lin Shu and Jiang Nan. One has been depleted of trust by three relationships, and the other has not been in love for more than 30 years because of his family of origin. They started from the absurd agreement of "only talk about sex but not love", naively thinking that they could use rules to keep love out. But feelings are never a switch - they seep in quietly from the gaps in life: a hot water bottle, a box of melatonin, a bowl of late-night noodles. They are like the pot of "Affrey" on the balcony, taking root silently where no one can see it, accumulating nutrients on its own, and then blooming quietly when it's time to bloom. Love is never a talent, but an ability that needs to be learned. It took them a whole year to learn to believe in love and no longer be afraid of love.
