Traffic policeman Luo Yan has been on duty at this intersection for three years. He is selfless and never misses a single order. Until the man riding a black Ducati appeared - Lu Zheng, a man who was always breaking the rules, always laughing, and always getting himself injured after helping others.
Luo Yan gave him a ticket, and he accepted it with a smile; Luo Yan repaired his car, but he said, "You didn't issue a receipt, so it's not a legal charge." As the traffic went back and forth, the tips of the hard-faced traffic policeman's ears turned red, and the bohemian rider also put away his cynicism. There is an invisible line between them - Luo Yan's rule and Lu Zheng's exception.
Luo Yan told a fable: The lighthouse keeper Lao Zhou abided by the rules and turned off the lights on time on a snowstorm night, causing the freighter to hit the rocks and twelve people died. He is right, rules are rules; but he is also wrong, rules are made for people, not people who live by the rules.
That was actually Luo Yan's own dilemma. He lived his life as a lighthouse that would never go out, so bright that he did not allow himself to see that there was another person under the light. Until Lu Zheng broke into his post covered in rain, until he was injured and hospitalized, Lu Zheng stayed by the hospital bed until the sugar melted, until the entire squadron joined forces to "force" him to admit that some violations were legal.
On the day he was discharged from the hospital, Lu Zheng came to take him "home". Luo Yan poked his calf with a cane: "Your heart is racing too fast." Lu Zheng smiled and gently pulled him into his arms. Later, a small flag was hung on the back seat of Lu Zheng's motorcycle, and Luo Yan tore up a ticket and gave it to him: "Detention for life, no appeal."
From then on, the lights at that intersection were brightened for one second longer than required every day.
No one noticed. Only they know.
Intention: Rules are for people, not people living by rules. The true principle is not to coldly reject all exceptions, but to dare to set aside that second of warmth for worthy people and things while adhering to the bottom line.