If Heartbeats Could Be Quantified

Lu Huaizhou's life is an audit report calculated to the decimal point. He is thirty years old and works for an old state-owned enterprise. He is used to finding a sense of security in the cold Excel spreadsheets and boring accounts. His heart, frozen by the trauma of the past, was like an empty house in the long northern winter, with no one paying attention and no defenses. Until that spring night, he met Su Nianhe in a convenience store who was troubled but had light in his eyes. She's a poor student in a college town, struggling to pay the bills. Two people who were also staggering forward among the ruins of their original families began to recalculate each other's lives during the long nights of exchanging thoughts. Lu Huaizhou taught her to see clearly the complexity of the workplace and reality, while Su Nianhe used her barren but vigorous vitality to dismantle the defense mechanism he had set up for many years bit by bit. When the four seasons turn around and the accounts are reconciled, they discover that the most difficult issue in the world is never gains and losses, but how to spend the rest of your life with the person who understands you in this trivial reality. "Mr. Lu, we still have a long life, can we try... To settle the accounts more gently?