Shen Ning and Lu Anlan joined the government at the same time and became colleagues sitting across the desk. Both of them are middle-aged people in a besieged city: Shen Ning is raising a child alone, is lonely in a long-distance marriage, and longs for spiritual resonance; Lu Anlan is in a dull marriage and feels depressed in an unchanging life.
Get along day and night at close range, and the subtle tenderness and tacit understanding quietly breed restrained ambiguity. The two soberly abide by their moral boundaries, but they can't help but redeem each other and sink each other. The secret relationship heats up day by day, attracting young colleagues to watch and speculate, and is also keenly noticed by Lu Anlan's wife He Fei.
Family responsibilities, workplace rumors, and worldly sense of propriety are layer upon layer, and the two are repeatedly pulled between approaching and retreating. A workplace crisis completely exposes the shortcomings of reality. All tenderness is no match for the blank status and the shackles of reality.
In the end, Shen Ning completely woke up, got rid of her emotional internal friction, took the initiative to leave the scene with dignity, and cut off all ties. There was no quarrel or entanglement between the two, and they ended up saying goodbye decently. The story focuses on the spiritual loneliness and self-salvation of middle-aged people, and focuses on the sober growth of women.
Purpose: to explore the spiritual loneliness of middle-aged people, to describe the struggle of ordinary people between worldly responsibilities and inner emotions, to write about restrained and decent adult emotional dilemmas, and to explore how people find themselves in intimate relationships and real life.