Borrow Some Time

Lin Xu wandered in the big city for five years, living like a dehydrated plant. Tired of living in a cubicle and cramped in a rental house, she could only rely on a meager salary and repressed desires to maintain a fragile sense of security. Until the word "optimization" fell like a sharp blade, cutting off her last connection with the city. Unemployment, savings bottomed out, and the shadow of poverty in the original family struck again. Holding the letter from her grandma, she returned to the small town in the south of the Yangtze River that she had desperately escaped from. What greeted her was the dazzling red word "" on the lintel of "Xu Shi Teahouse" and her grandma's calm but powerful words: "People don't rely on money to support themselves in old age, they live on thoughts." The developer's compensation plan is full of temptations. On one side is a number that can solve all difficulties, and on the other side is an old teahouse that carries the warm memories of childhood. In the pull between reality and emotion, Lin Xu was forced to face the fragile, low-self-esteem little girl in her heart who always felt that she was "not worthy". This is a journey about return and redemption. In the thick fragrance of tea, grandma's life wisdom is like a beacon illuminating the way forward. Lin Xu gradually understood that what sustains a person through the years is never the number on the bank card, but the "thoughts" in the time - the sound of boiling water in the copper kettle in the afternoon of childhood, the hot tea handed over by a stranger in trouble, and the moment of reconciliation with oneself. She wants to use this time to protect her grandma's teahouse, and to find herself who has been overwhelmed by life.