The lifestyle editor who struggled to hang himself after working for several years × The winemaker who hid in the village and slowly grew moldy.
"The grapes used to make good wine are usually not grown in soils that are too fertile."
Chu Qiao worked as a lifestyle editor at Shangwen Group for five years. Business cards are easy to use, dinner parties are decent, and the manuscripts you write will never go wrong. The only problem was that he increasingly had no idea what else he wanted to write.
After another social hangover, he was sent to a winery in the north to do preliminary editing for the tenth anniversary project. Lin Beichuan, the technical person in charge assigned to him by Party A, doesn't like to say nice things, doesn't cooperate with photo-taking, and doesn't have much interest in so-called "custom stories." He only cares about the plot, the weather, the grapes, and whether the day's work is done.
Chu Qiao originally thought that this was just another project that could be touted and completed according to the template. It wasn't until he actually walked into vineyards, cooperatives and villages that he began to meet Lin Beichuan frequently.
One writes fake stories and the other grows real grapes.
They couldn't understand each other, but each other gradually became an itch that couldn't be ignored. Maybe happiness is when you have an itch, someone is finally willing to scratch it for you.
Half a month later, Chu Qiao will return to Beijing. Projects will be completed, manuscripts will be delivered, and the winery will still operate according to the seasons. As for whether the things that have just sprouted between them can leave this land and continue to grow, no one knows yet.
Intention: In the process of getting close to the fruits of labor and giving to each other, we can regain concrete love and life.