Lin Wantang, 26 years old, is a data analyst at a company in City A. She is used to arranging her life like an Excel spreadsheet - every box is filled in neatly, with no blanks, no mistakes, and no surprises. Going to work, getting off work, eating, and sleeping, she carefully avoided all relationships and emotions that might cause trouble in her days of calm and almost numbness.
Until Shen Nian appeared.
A school girl whom I only met once in college was suddenly transferred to work in City A, with a smile like a bouquet of gardenias and a question that Lin Wantang couldn't resist: "What do you really want?"
Shen Nian is the opposite of Lin Wantang. She is sensitive, direct, easy to cry and laugh easily. She is willing to cry all night over a novel, and she is also willing to travel half a city for an uncertain date. She was like a beam of light shining into the gray area that Lin Wantang carefully maintained. She was also like a key, trying to open the door that Lin Wantang thought had been welded shut long ago.
They ate in a small rented house, walked under the sycamore trees in autumn, and tested each other's temperature through casual touches. But Lin Wantang still hides a secret in her heart that she has never mentioned to anyone - about another past, about another person who taught her "not to get close".
When Shen Nian gets closer step by step, and when those memories that have been deliberately forgotten come back, Lin Wantang has to face a choice: continue to be an isolated island, or allow himself to be loved again.
Purpose: This work aims to explore the emotional isolation and self-salvation of modern urbanites through a slow and true emotional narrative of Lily. The focus is not on the external label of "falling in love with the same sex", but on the common life issue of "how a person learns to love again".