Silent Trust

"Silent Entrustment" is set in a dilapidated residential building in the old city of Chengdu. It tells the story of a silent but hot human bond that spans blood ties. Wu Yan, a twenty-eight-year-old Internet worker, took out a loan to buy a small house and worked alone. Amidst the endless overtime work, the urge to get married, and the numbness of life, he accidentally crossed paths with Gu Shi and Wen Zhan, a couple who lived alone upstairs. One rainy night, Wu Yan helped Grandpa Gu, who was exhausted after returning from buying loquats, and then knocked on the closed door of the 80-year-old couple's home. He gradually learned that the old couple had lost their son, daughter and grandson in a dozen years. They guarded the house full of old things and memories, and depended on each other in a corner where no one cared. In daily interactions, a bowl of hot soup, a chess game, and a hand-knitted scarf have turned the originally alienated neighbors into relying on each other. When aging and illness were approaching, Gu Shi, who had been proud all his life, sold the house to Wu Yan at a low price of 150,000 yuan. In fact, he was silently entrusting the last dignity and posthumous affairs of himself and his wife to this kind young man. Wu Yan accepted this heavy trust and accompanied the two old people on their final journey of life. The story uses delicate and restrained writing to describe the sadness of loneliness in old age, and also depicts the most touching warmth in the fireworks of the city. In this two-way redemption, Wu Yan not only saved the last dignity for the old man, but also found the warmth and meaning of living in the cold life, and understood the most precious companionship and concern in ordinary life.