[Strike for Love × Ten Years of Waiting × Shuangjie]
Eighteen years ago, in the alley behind the old cotton spinning factory in the west of the city, eight-year-old Wen Nuo stuffed a cracked and inferior jade Buddha into the palm of a strange boy, said, "Brother, don't cry, I'll give you money here," and then fainted.
The boy ran three streets with her on his back, placed her at the entrance of the orphanage, climbed over the wall and left.
After leaving, it will be eighteen years.
Eighteen years later, Wen Nuo is a popular movie queen and the canary raised in Xie Yanzhi's cage.
She found the jade Buddha and hung it around her neck every day, its cracks already softened by her body temperature. She was hidden, controlled, and forced into marriage. Everyone said that she had a good life - only she knew how cold the chain that had locked her up for sixteen years was.
Until the man named Huo Yuheng appeared at the banquet. In front of Xie Yanzhi, he held her chin frivolously, but his eyes were as cold as ice: "Wen Nuo, I will drink this glass of wine for you."
Everyone thought this was a fight for love between wealthy families.
Only Wen Nuo thought the way he looked at her was strange—with eighteen years of forbearance and an ecstasy that was almost fearful.
Later, when Xie Yanzhi knelt in the ruins and begged for mercy, Huo Yuheng took out the jade Buddha that had been with him for eighteen years from his collar and smiled cruelly at him: "I forgot to mention that I raised the 'sister' you lost back then for ten years."
——That is not robbery, that is a web woven with the whole youth, in the name of "stealing jade" and ending in "returning to one's place".
It took him eighteen years to walk back to her from the alley, and it took her eighteen years to walk from the cage to his arms.
The Jade Buddha is still there, and the cracks are still there.
But the hand holding it finally felt warm.
You are the place I spent my entire youth to steal back.
Intention: True love is to remember every detail of the first encounter and then spend the rest of your life responding to it.