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The first time Lin Shang met Lingzhen, she squatted in the corner and cried. He gave her an osmanthus candy. She said his name was unpleasant, and he smiled. It was the first time he smiled at someone. They later partnered for seven years. Forty-three missions, forty-three survived back to back. She is a poison expert and he is a sniper. He likes to see her two pear dimples when she is happy. She said she wanted to be a normal person with him, go to work, cook, and have a bunch of kids. He said you don't know how to cook, and she said I can learn. They hide all their tenderness in the sweet-scented osmanthus candies, the paper cranes, and the wind on the rooftops again and again. The locker is filled with paper cranes she folded, each one next to the other, as she said: "Next to each other." He is an orphan and so is she. They agreed: after this mission is over, they will officially announce their marriage. But the last task given by the organization is to kill each other. What Lin Shen didn't know was that Lingzhen had secretly given birth to their child, who was just one month old. She didn't tell him because she knew that if he knew he had a child, he would never let her die. She exchanged his life for a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cake. Is she a traitor? No. She just wanted him to live. Later, Lin Shu raised the child by himself. Later, on the day of the child's wedding, he went to find her quietly. In this life, he only listens to her words. "Stay alive," she said. He lived for twenty-five years. She said: "Hate me." Not once did he do it. This is not a story about hate. This is a story about how love buries people alive, and how it digs them out at the last moment. Intention: Love is not possession, sacrifice, or even living. Love means that after you leave, I will live out the life that you couldn't live for you. Then I'll go find you.