When the Rain Stops, We Become Guests to Each Other

Seventeen-year-old Su Wan has a secret that only comes into play on stormy days.

Whenever the rain pours, she briefly travels to an apartment ten years in the future, where she meets twenty-seven-year-old Lu Yu.

The rain is a bridge between two points in time. As soon as it stops, the passage closes abruptly, and she has to return the way she came. There are no exceptions.

As a boy, Lu Yu was quiet and shy, and the two of them barely knew each other. Ten years later, he lives alone in this apartment. He is calm and gentle, and has known all along the rules governing their encounters across time. During the long plum-rain season, they share the sound of the rain, talking about homework, the mountains and rivers of the future, and the feelings neither dares to confess.

Time is a closed loop, and they are brief visitors in each other's rainy days.

He tells her that rain is a bridge, not a place to stay. She shouldn't stop moving forward for the sake of an unpredictable downpour.

But the girl's feelings grow wildly with the damp air. Again and again, she rushes to meet him, cherishing this borrowed, fleeting companionship.

They can never settle on the same timeline and stay together for long.

When the clouds part and daylight breaks through, their farewell always arrives on time.

From the very beginning, this encounter across ten years was marked by a time limit and regret.

Story theme: Time follows its own course. Love does not always mean you can stay together. Cherish brief encounters, and each pursue the life that belongs to you.