On the day Lin Zhiyi arrived in Hong Kong City for the first time, he rented a street-facing apartment next to Nathan Road.
On the third floor, the windows are not tightly closed, and the traffic in the whole street can be heard at night. The landlord said she could change the room if it was too noisy, but she refused because she liked a place with noise and it would make it seem less empty.
The next day at work, on the 37th floor of IFC, Chen Bainian walked over from the other side of the corridor, shook her hand and left.
She stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of her office and looked at the sea of Hong Kong Island, wondering how many years she would stay in this city.
In three years, she went from being an analyst under him to VP. He still said little, but always did a lot of small things that cared about her in places that she couldn't see.
Everything was done, but nothing was said.
She asked him "if I leave, will you keep me" and he was silent.
Then she turned around and left without waiting any longer, and he didn't hold her back.
Later, she went to Beijing and worked from an investment manager to a director. She thought she had forgotten the people and things in Hong Kong.
Until I received a text message late one night: "Have you changed your number?"
That night, she saw a man in a black coat at the door of a convenience store downstairs in Beijing.
For three years, she went north from Nathan Road to Central to work every day.
Later, she went north to Beijing, and he followed her northward.
The last two people stood on the balcony of Nathan Road and watched the traffic flow downstairs. The car was still driving north.
But she doesn't have to.
In the love between adults, hesitating means giving up.
But it took her seven years to truly understand this sentence: The answer doesn't come by waiting, it comes when you get to that position and look back and see that he is there too.
Intention: Whether you wait to meet that person is a matter of fate, but whether you can follow your own path or not is your own business.