Lin Wan had managed to become a glorious planning director in the Magic City, but suddenly collapsed at the age of thirty. Eight years of being cheated in the workplace, half a lifetime of being squeezed out of her family, and twenty years of repeated nightmares crushed her dignity that had been tense for many years.
Coinciding with the demolition of her old house, she gave up all her glory and fled back to the small town where she had escaped for twenty years, trying to reconcile with the past.
But after returning, everything was lies.
The locked girl's room, the tacit silence of the whole village, the flaw in the parents' panic and avoidance, and the repeated knocking on the door in the dream.
Everyone tried to persuade her to let things go, and everyone tried their best to cover up the truth.
Lin Wan finally knew that her sister Lin Xi's accidental fall into the water was never caused by an unpredictable fate. That night when she was seventeen years old, she stood at the door of her home, knocking on the door to no avail, and finally walked to the dark river beach alone.
The old house is gathering dust and time is sealed, but the regret never goes away.
The reunited old friend Su Yan had hidden her guilt for twenty years and silently accompanied her to peel away the layers of masks and expose the thinness of family ties and the lies in the small town.
What she demolished was the old house, what she wanted was to redeem the rest of her life, and what she wanted was to find the truth about the seventeen-year-old that was buried by everyone.
CP: Sober and tough workplace female protagonist × Tolerant, affectionate and conservative male protagonist
Ending: Reality leads to redemption, HE, self-healing after lying, two-way healing
Purpose: This article uses the heroine's return to her hometown for demolition and tracing her sister's dusty past as clues to tear apart the hypocritical mask of the original family and the collective lies told by everyone in the small town. Focusing on adults' self-salvation and reconciliation, breaking through the internal friction of obsessions, and facing past regrets. With restrained and delicate brushstrokes, it depicts the warmth and warmth of human nature and the game of family affection, coupled with the two-way healing feelings of the male protagonist who has been patiently accompanying him for twenty years. In the end, the female protagonist breaks away from the spiritual shackles, recovers the truth for the deceased, reconciles with the past and herself, and conveys the positive core of facing regrets, breaking away from internal friction, and self-salvation.