Introduction to the work
Chu Zhaoci has a face that looks like something straight out of a Chinese painting, wears a pilling sweatshirt and canvas shoes, and works as a cow in an audit firm.
There is a sticky note taped to her workstation: "Today I must try not to be a good enough person. Because the standard of 'good enough' is set by others, and not being good enough is my territory."
Shen Juan is an actor who has been acting for twenty years. He enters and exits the play so quickly that he can't tell which one is the real him. There is a memo on his mobile phone, full of "truthful things that cannot be said in front of the camera" - all boring trivial matters, because he is afraid that if he talks too much, he will lose it.
He picked her up at the elevator entrance at two o'clock in the morning. She was so sleepy that she pressed the wrong floor button, fell into his arms, and dropped the sticky note to the floor. He looked at it for five seconds. He said: "It's better to be stupid, smart people will lose sleep."
Later he started to sit on the three steps below her. Bring a box of hawthorn pills, a cup of Pu'er, and a warm yellow lamp that he secretly installed. Boss Liu said that the lamp had been broken for two years and no one had repaired it. Shen Juan said: "The light is not enough."
She was squatting on the steps eating instant noodles, while he was drinking Pu'er next to her. The cat squatted between the two people, its tail resting on the top of her shoe. He said: "I have lived for twenty-eight years, and no one has ever said to me, 'It's okay not to be good enough.' You are the first." She squatted under the lamp, and the warm yellow light enveloped the entire staircase. She said: "Those who are not good enough include me."
This is a story about "not good enough" people taking each other in. Two-way redemption/daily slow-burn/everyone has an arc. Dedicated to all those who are tired of living under the standard of "good enough" - you are not good enough, but you deserve someone to wait for you with the light on.
Intention: People who are tired of living under the standard of "good enough" draw a piece of land that is "not good enough" and find that there is a light waiting for someone to come.