300 Days of Non-Euclidean Geometry

During his study abroad trip, young scholar Lin Shen met Su Jin, a female doctor who was also visiting. At that time, he had just experienced a relationship that was full of conflicts and exhausted in a long distance; she was trapped in a relationship that was in name only and was about to lead to a formal marriage. The two people, who were both socially awkward, met through a newbie event, and during the following three hundred days of studying there, they gradually became the most trustworthy and dangerous beings in each other's emotional world. They run, swim, cook, go to the supermarket together, listen to concerts together, go to the seaside pier to read books, review their feelings for each other, and use their respective expertise and wisdom to open up new spiritual spaces for each other. He taught her swimming, and she taught him math; he planned his itinerary, and she was only responsible for praising him. Everyone thought they were a couple, and only they knew what was between them. Su Jin knew that this relationship was fruitless, so she used extreme rationality to draw boundaries for it; Lin Shen, on the other hand, backed down from the critical point again and again because of excessive cherishing. The two never held hands, never hugged, and never crossed the line. In three hundred days, they used extreme restraint and deep desire to complete an extreme stretch on the boundary between spirit and body. Finally, Su Jin's husband came to visit, and Lin Shen only shook hands with her once at the bus stop. That was their only formal physical contact, and it was also their limited farewell. In the next ten years, they each got married, had children, and lived in their respective cities. They met twice and had two meals, but no one mentioned that past again. But everyone could tell from that noon that summer never really ended.