Us in the Real World

Lin Hao sold the company he founded and turned from a technology upstart back to a country idler. Everyone saw defeat, but in his heart he was escaping - escaping from the suffocating feeling of watching his seriously ill girlfriend being taken away by her father at the airport three years ago, but being unable to do anything about it. The pair of disconnected Bluetooth headphones became a thorn in his heart that couldn't be removed. Returning to his dilapidated old house, faced with the criticism of his neighbors and the sorrow of his parents, he sat down at his desk at five o'clock every day. Among the rejection letters and scraps of paper, he clumsily traced his father's stooped back when repairing the car and his mother's hands that were frozen and red while pickling vegetables. Words are his only weapon against nothingness. Unexpectedly, these essays recording the joys and sorrows of ordinary people were collected into "Mud and Starlight", which was approved and adapted into a play. As he suddenly became famous, he met the quiet female scholar Su Wan among his old papers. In the dust of history and the warmth of artifacts, the two found a resonance that needs no words. An ordinary marriage provided an anchorage for his wandering heart for half his life. Under the emerald setting sun, Xiao Yu, who had recovered and had a new life, heard the news of his marriage and shed tears of relief against the waves of the Arno River. The regrets and debts that spanned many years were tenderly forgiven at the same time thousands of miles apart in time and space. This is a story about failure, loss and reconstruction. It tells how a person can re-identify his own starlight in the humblest dust of life, and in the most ordinary companionship, find the deep and tenacious power to fight against the emptiness of life.