Twenty-two years ago, while studying in South Korea, she met Joon Seo. Their relationship was brief and passionate, but quietly ended in the face of reality and the choices they made. After that, they went their separate ways: careers, families, children, and one connection after another that never quite brought them together.
Twenty-two years later, a message on WeChat brought them back together in Guiyun, a small town in southern China.
They had only thirty hours.
They recognized each other through a glass door, walked side by side along a mountain road, and drew close again beneath lanterns glowing in the night. At dawn, they talked about the lives they had lived apart. Time had changed their faces, identities, and circumstances, but it had not entirely erased certain memories that lingered in their bodies.
If It Were You is not a story about rekindling an old romance, nor a love story about choosing one person and leaving another. It is about two adults who, after many long years, finally see each other again, and see the people they used to be.
Some people do not stay by our side, yet they remain part of who we become.
Theme: Through a reunion spanning twenty-two years, the story explores how time, choices, and missed chances shape our lives. A truly important relationship does not have to end in staying together. Some people may not remain by our side, yet they are still part of the people we become. When faced with a past that cannot be changed, understanding, acceptance, and making peace with oneself are also an adult's deepest responses to love.
There is always a little regret in life before it is perfect. Only when you think about it or meet in the future will you have a good mood to look forward to it.