Looking Deep

During the rainy season in Linjiang City, Lin Jianshen, an ancient book restorer, handed an old umbrella to Qi Wang, a strange man standing under the bus stop, in the rain. Her world was originally made up of rice paper and paste in the ancient book room, so quiet that there was only the sound of turning pages; while he was a designer who focused on the protection of ancient buildings, and his footprints were all over the bricks and streets of the old city. The borrowing and returning of an umbrella became the intersection of two people's worlds. He brought her cold medicine and hot soy milk, and she consulted for him the old architectural information recorded in ancient books; she smoothed the wrinkles of old paper in the restoration room, and he sketched the outline of the ancient building on the design drawing. Two people who also prefer silence and old things gradually become attracted to each other's tenderness and focus through inadvertent encounters. When the words in ancient books meet the bricks and tiles of ancient buildings, when Lin Jianshen's "seeing deeply" meets Qi Wang's "looking", in the old city where time has settled, they slowly understand the tenderness hidden in the years, and also find a quiet but firm heartbeat that belongs to each other.