In this world where the supernatural and the everyday intersect, S-class exorcist Jiang Yan is best at using blue karma fire to burn out evil spirits. He always wore a warm and cheerful smile, like the sun that never goes out - until he opened the door of the "Jingyu" cafe and met the owner Shi Yan with short gray-blue hair and distant eyes.
Shi Yan, an A+ level exorcist rumored to have rare time manipulation abilities in the industry, is now willing to guard this quiet cafe, hand-making coffee for regular customers, and leaving the past of the battle behind the neat counter. He treated every uninvited guest indifferently, but he only remembered Jiang Yan, the "troublesome regular customer" - even if the other person always changed his order, even if he said "I won't come next time" every time.
Jiang Yan was just curious at first, wanting to know why this legendary figure was hiding here. He deliberately teased Shi Yan, enjoying the way the other person's ears turned red but pretended to be calm. He brought back midnight snacks "on the way" and "accidentally" dealt with the spiritual disturbance near the cafe, using actions instead of words. While saying "trouble", Shi Yan dug out the medical box when Jiang Yan was injured, leaving an extra light when the other party visited late at night.
Until an attack by a high-ranking ghost girl tore apart this calm disguise. In order to protect Shi Yan, Jiang Yan almost lost control of his karma fire, and the deep scars from the past burned in the flames; at that moment, Shi Yan used the time stasis that was almost sealed by himself - not to fight, but to hold back the person who was about to fall into the abyss of the past.
"Your flame," Shi Yan looked directly at the gloom in Jiang Yan's eyes for the first time in the gap where time stood still, "doesn't need to burn so hot forever."
Since then, the cafe has become their common quiet place. Jiang Yan's flame finally learned the "warm" temperature, and Shi Yan's clock began to move forward three minutes for someone. They exchanged information in the morning mist-like aroma of coffee, and repaired each other's rifts in the dim light of karmic fire - one used flames to illuminate the other's dusty past, and the other used time to guard the other's unburned future.
When a bigger shadow quietly approaches, and when the truth about "Ghost Girl" overlaps with Jiang Yan's past, they know that they are no longer alone this time.
"If time ever ends," Shi Yan held Jiang Yan's hand tightly, his gray-blue eyes reflecting the dancing blue flames, "I will be there to light the first fire for you."
This is a story about "burning the past and watching the morning mist". In the quiet corner of the noisy world, the laws of karma and time are quietly being rewritten - guided by the bitterness of coffee and bound by each other's temperature.
Purpose: To explore the power of self-salvation and companionship after trauma. No matter how long the winter and stagnant time is, it will be warmed by the fiery beating of another heart. May we all be that quiet place for each other in the noisy world.