Hidden in the old pages of the library are the first encounters between Wen Ruan and Jiang Xu - she is a copywriter who is afraid of being let down by her promises, and wraps her desire for love with silence; he is a designer who grew up in an empty mansion, and uses coldness to cover up his clumsiness in not understanding gentleness. A note saying "Don't fight with the bookshelf" became the beginning of their slow tug-of-war: he remembered the details of her not eating coriander, but turned cold when her mother questioned her; she hid the umbrella he handed her, but was moved by the silence when he accompanied her until closing time.
The shadow of the original family is an invisible net. He uses "pushing away" as protection, and she uses "escape" as armor, until the sentence "inappropriate" cuts off the connection like a dull knife. In the past three years, he practiced apologizing on old sticky notes and transformed the library into what she liked; she dissected loneliness in words, but she always thought of the old poetry collection in his car.
When they reunited, he stood on the stage and talked about "The Temperature of Space", with the details she mentioned in his eyes; she suddenly understood his panic in the audience. The old love between their parents and the struggles of their friends finally made them understand: love is not about avoiding scars, but slowly approaching with scars. Just like light spreading through the pages of a book, it takes enough time for the people in the shadow to catch each other's tenderness.
Purpose: Learn to love and reconcile clumsily in the shadow of your original family