Whose Lifetime Is This?

New hire Yu Xuan spends every day buried in exhausting work. Shi Weiyang, who joined at the same time and works in the office next door, often drops by to borrow things or get water, and invites Ye Fan, who works in Yu Xuan's office, to lunch. Later, she starts inviting Yu Xuan too. Swamped with work, Yu Xuan often has no appetite and absentmindedly turns her down without looking away from her computer. Maybe she simply gets tired of refusing, or maybe their persistence, never holding her refusals against her, finally moves her. One day, Yu Xuan suddenly joins the lunch group with Shi Weiyang, Ye Fan, and Jiang Zhan from downstairs. From then on, the two men and two women eat together, laughing and chatting. Yu Xuan is astonished to find that Shi Weiyang always says what she was about to say first. They handle people and situations in similar ways, and made similar life choices during the years before they met. They are astonishingly alike. Yu Xuan feels that Shi Weiyang is like another version of herself. Though she once loudly declared, “Date Shi Weiyang? I wouldn’t do it even if I got ten for the price of one,” in the end, Yu Xuan has to eat her words.