The year Yu Hanzhang turned twenty-eight, she ran away from her life.
She had worked as an accountant for five years and taken the blame for others for five years. Her parents were cold and unloving, and she had been raised by her grandparents. She had grown used to lowering her head, swallowing every emotion, and wearing herself down until she was as thin as a sheet of paper. Then, one day, she finally quit her job and flew to Yunnan.
Life in Dali moved slowly. She stayed in an old house, drank tea at a teahouse by day, and listened to people in the courtyard drink and chat at night. She nodded to everyone but let no one get close. She thought she was only there to catch her breath.
Then she met someone.
He was gentle, sincere, and even-tempered. He remembered the little things she mentioned in passing, sat quietly beside her when she fell silent, and stayed where he was when she backed away. He gave her a kind of affection she had never received in her life.
She fell for him, and knew he had fallen for her too.
But what came after falling in love?
No one had ever firmly chosen her in her whole life. So when someone really did come toward her, her first instinct was to run.
The wind had died down, but the moon was still not full.
He had done nothing wrong. Neither had she.
They were simply one step apart.
Theme: An exploration of a woman's path to healing after growing up deprived of love in her family of origin. The heroine finds brief solace in Yunnan's slow-paced life and a restrained mutual crush, but ultimately chooses to say goodbye with dignity because she feels unworthy of love deep down. The story expresses that true growth may not mean immediately finding the courage to accept love. It may mean acknowledging one's own fear and continuing to live, even with regrets.
The heroine's name is so nice