Su Jin lived a very useless life.
The old and the young are squeezed into the peeling walls. They are used to giving in and compromising in the workplace. When they feel wronged, they will hide in the corridor and smoke. He has a timid personality and is covered in scars from the past that cannot be washed away.
Two years ago, on an autumn night outside the bar, she was learning to smoke for the first time and was choked to the point of coughing.
Lu Shiyan passed by and handed her a bottle of water.
He is a civil servant within the system, and he treats others with restraint, gentleness, and just the right amount of propriety.
Later, he walked into her dark and narrow life, like a beam of light that came unexpectedly.
He is her lover who guides her, teaches her to keep her boundaries, teaches her not to blindly please others, and patiently accompanies her clumsy little girl to learn to live a good life little by little.
The broken lights in the dim corridors, the spreading tobacco mist, the night breeze in the old house.
Su Jin thought that he had finally grasped his own salvation.
But all the hot tenderness is just a mirror.
A big dream, after it burns out, only embers remain.
Purpose: To reveal the psychological dilemma in which people easily fantasize about external salvation in traumatic situations, and to illustrate that true relief cannot be pinned on others, but must face one's own scars and accept all of one's imperfections.