Jiang Lin is the youngest partner of Linyuan Law Firm and has never failed in commercial litigation. He thought the man six years ago had completely disappeared from his life - until a case file landed on his desk. The other party's company name: Bai Xu Construction. Legal representative: Shen Xubai.
Six years ago, Shen Xubai left without saying goodbye. Jiang Lin called for three days, knocked on the door for half an hour, and waited for three months. Finally, he locked that past in a drawer and put it together with the old pen whose ink had dried up long ago. He never threw the pen.
At the mediation meeting six years later, Shen Xubai sat opposite him. Thinner, jawline sharper, the old scar on my left wrist still there. Jiang Lin's first sentence was "Hello, Jiang Lin, Linyuan Law Firm." The pen in Shen Xubai's hand drew a long ink mark on the paper.
Commercial complex contract disputes. He is the attorney for Hengtai, and Shen Xubai is the chief architect of Baixu Architecture. Opponents on both sides of the negotiating table.
But the pair of silver cufflinks were still on Shen Xubai's wrist. Jiang Lin saved up two months' salary to buy the pair six years ago. The spicy food was so spicy that he couldn't eat it, but he swallowed it silently. On a rainy night after working overtime in the early morning, his car parked quietly at the door of the office building.
Jiang Lin thought he came back to settle the accounts from six years ago. Until someone's words revealed the entire truth of that year.
Architects don't speak. The lawyer couldn't believe it.
But the real question has never been "Why did you leave", but "Are you willing to let me face it with you?"
Intent: This is a story about rebuilding trust. The core of the story is not about recovery, but about learning to face it together.