Shen Ning did not expect to see Liang Yan again in the conference room in Donggang seven years later.
During his college year, Liang Yan went to Beijing and said, "Wait until I come back." She waited, starting from a phone call once a week to once a month, and finally only the group messages during the holidays. Later, she didn't wait any longer and met the gentle and considerate Cheng Yu, thinking that the matter was settled.
But Liang Yan is back.
The South Bank business district renovation project brought the two people together again. On one side is the demolition of the old city, the struggle of merchants, and the game of capital; on the other side is the seven-year gap between the two people and the rift in their respective lives. Shen Ning was repeatedly pulled between her professional instinct as a business planner and her deep feelings for the old city, and the things she once liked about Liang Yan - silence, paranoia, and unwillingness to bow - were also being crushed bit by bit by this city.
Cheng Yu said: \\\"Do you think he will really stay for you? He can't stay. He never can stay.\\\"
But at night at the beach, Liang Yan asked her: \\\"Shen Ning, what kind of life do you want to live.\\\"
She thought about it for a long time. It was not the kind of life that others told her "should" lead, not a stable, decent, step-by-step life. What she wants is - at a certain twilight moment, in the sea breeze, with the person she has chosen, to see that the things that are about to disappear are still there.
This is a story about choice. About the people who stay and those who want to come back, about the demolished old streets and the dream of being rebuilt, about how long it takes for a person to dare to be honest with himself.
Intention: Some things will really disappear if no one can remember them - about urban memory, personal choice and self-honesty.