Two or Three Rooms

On a rainy night in Lijiang, Lin Xiwan was putting the finishing touches on a six-digit custom watercolor painting. The door was knocked, and a soaked man stood in the rain, ready to book the entire B&B. "It's full," she said. "My project is the overall planning of this ancient town. If I demolish your B&B, it's just a piece of paper." Gu Huaizhi is the youngest architecture award winner in Shanghai. He came to Lijiang to work on a cultural tourism project, but even the drawings were lost. He thought this was just a short stay, but he didn't know that after opening the door of "Second or Third Room", he would never go back. Lin Xiwan stayed at an old house in Lijiang and painted watercolors for seven years. She could draw the direction of every culvert, but she couldn't draw the thoughts of this arrogant man. Until she discovered that he never turned off the lights when sleeping. The sound of breathing coming from the crack in the door was like a drowning person flopping under the water. She silently turned on the hallway light. He later learned that she could not hear in her left ear. The way she listens to the world is to turn her right ear to the side and wait carefully and quietly. He thought he was here for a temporary stay. She thought she would never leave. Until he wrote the word "stay" on the back of her drawing, until she drew a lighted window on that drawing. "Can I spend the first day of the new year with you tomorrow?" She turned her head and pointed her right ear at him. This time she didn't say "what did you say". She said: "Say it again." When he came, the snow stopped.