The Beginning of the Dream of Beidiao

The summer when she dragged her half-used suitcase into Beijing, Lin Xiaoxing thought she was going to be swallowed up by the heat and crowds of the city—encountering shady agents, being squeezed into cubicles, and being repeatedly rejected in interviews. The design dream she had just graduated from was crumbling in reality. Until an unexpected text message about renting an apartment made her meet the duplex apartment with a small balcony and her neighbor Gu Yan upstairs.​ He is a calm and gentle freelance architectural designer who will hand her a glass of hot milk and software skills when she stays up late to revise her plan and gets stuck; she is a tough and stubborn newbie in the workplace who always inadvertently brightens up his slightly monotonous work routine with her love for the details of life. From the polite greetings when sharing a flat, to supporting each other in difficult situations in the workplace, to the heart-pounding glances on the balcony late at night, two people who strive to shine in the city slowly get closer, turning the deserted rental house into a warm and cozy nest.​ This is not a vigorous love, nor a thrilling counterattack - it is just a story about "growth" and "companionship": it is Lin Xiaoxing's transformation from a novice in the workplace to an independent designer, and it is Gu Yan's transformation from focusing on work to learning to embrace life; it is the two of them working together to resist Party A's difficulties and resolve the expectations and pressure of the original family. In the daily life of buying the first green plant, cooking the first hot pot, and watching the first architecture exhibition, they turned the bitterness of Beidiao into sweetness.​ In the end, you will find that the so-called "starlight" is never an unattainable dream, but the light that is on late at night, the bowl of porridge that is heated after working overtime. It is someone who accompanies you in the big city, step by step, turning "wandering" into "belonging".