When she was seventeen years old, Lu Tianyi bumped into Ding Yan from the next class in the morning light in the corridor. The boy's eyes were slightly curved when he smiled, and he would tilt his umbrella towards her on rainy days, but he never asked her if she needed this tenderness with a sense of distance. On the day they broke up, she decided not to bring the necklace with her anymore - it turned out that the heartbeat of her youth was like rain that she couldn't hold. The harder she tried, the more it would flow away between her fingers.
In early autumn, when she was twenty-eight, she saw someone placing a pack of tissues on the windowsill in the tea room. That person had seen her red eyes late at night and her silence after hanging up the phone, but he just silently left a light in the corridor for her. Until one day when it rained heavily, he stood downstairs in the company holding an umbrella, his sleeves stained with rainwater and said, "I brought an umbrella, but you can decide whether you want to go with me or not."
From campus to city, from "being defined by love" to "learning to love yourself", Lu Tianyi finally understood: true love is not one-sided accommodation and waiting, but two people standing side by side in the rain, smiling and saying, "This rain seems to last for a long time."
Concept: Love is not about rushing to prove that you are worthy of being loved, but about finally meeting someone who makes you dare to say, "I don't have to be perfect."
