A LITTLE ESCAPE. A DIFFERENT WORLD.
Unexpected encounters. Lives intertwined.
A collection of stories, ready to be discovered.
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After hours, the restaurant receives a large-scale buyout offer; Song Ning wants to accept the order, but Gu He discovers that the delivery time would inevitably take up the staff's already confirmed joint holiday. The t
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At the station before parting, Ye Cheng receives an urgent revision request from Xu Lin; the task would turn her planned personal trip almost entirely into remote work, and she must decide whether to accept the expanded
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The narrator from Youlan Peak descends the mountain under orders from his mother, Zi Yanluo, to purchase spiritual materials, only to encounter bandits blocking the road at Wild Wolf Ridge. He attempts to rescue trapped
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Before closing the flower shop, Lin Zhi receives a nighttime photo from Xu Yuan and realizes her shop is often the last to turn off its lights on the entire street; while the scene looks romantic, the reality is a prolon
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In the living room, An Qing tries to explain her day-long low mood to Song Xu, who keeps looking for solutions while she simply wants to finish speaking, bringing them close to another argument before bed. She directly s
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Shen Wei is accustomed to waiting on a seaside bench for a long-distance letter, but after several nights without a reply, night-shift attendant Cheng Yue reminds her that nearby paths will soon close on schedule. She fi
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As the cinema is cleared late at night, Song Ning receives a request from Xu Yan hoping to screen a short film again for late-arriving audience members, even though the staff have already completed shutdown procedures an
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As the restaurant is closing, Ye He prepares to welcome Gu Yuan, who has just finished a night shift and only wants a simple dinner, but she has already promised her staff they could finish work on time today. She explai
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Xu Qing keeps adding laps in the evening park, wanting to exhaust the frustration from a career setback, only realizing it has turned completely dark when park attendant Mo Zhou reminds her of the closing time. She exits
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An incident following a graduation ceremony disrupts the narrator's life. Several days later, carrying an official seal, he heads to Xinli Village, where Li Anwu leads him through previously inaccessible alleys to the an
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The existing archive is labeled as fan-fiction continuation Part 15. Rongrong and her husband jointly arrange a meeting between her and A Mu, and she relays the conversation between the two of them to her husband. A Mu's
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Before moving, An He plays an old cassette tape and unexpectedly hears a deleted audition clip, subsequently inviting her longtime-unseen sound collaborator, Ji Chen, to the living room to check it. Following the failure
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While searching for a lost seat-numbering chart for a cinema in the old district, Wen Yin finds that the surveyor who arrives, Shao Lin, is someone who once worked part-time here alongside her. The back row where they us
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After entering officialdom through the imperial examinations, Zhang Ying is steadily promoted, but his wife, Lady Liu, dies of illness after following him to the capital for his post. He manages the funeral arrangements
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During an early morning oven test, He Xia receives a bag of wheat flour discontinued years ago; the delivery person, Du Heng, once ran a street stall with her and had left over accounting issues. This batch of flour cann
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Following continuous rain, Xu Zhi finds a decade-old suggestion in the bookstore's feedback box; the writer, Tao Yue, happens to visit the shop to restore an old planner. Back then, she dismissed the suggestions as overl
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On the last bus, Mo Yun receives a letter folded into the size of a ticket; the sender, Li Yuan, hopes she can help confirm the time a regular passenger lost an item. She initially mistakes it for an abrupt pickup attemp
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Xu Feng receives a letter requesting the removal of background music; the sender, Xia Zhi, always sits at the seat closest to the window and was originally the guest least likely to make complaints. He worries that quiet
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The narrator and his father engage in constant arguments over matchmaking: the father values practical conditions and worries that his son will miss the typical marriageable age, while the narrator is unwilling to accept
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While practicing flower arrangement at the flower shop, Meng Ling receives a returned thank-you letter; the recipient, Zhou Yu, admits to having moved, but had not expected her to still remember an instance of design ass
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After concluding their honeymoon, the flight originally scheduled to take Xiao Dong and his wife Jing to Shanghai makes a temporary diversion to Hangzhou. He contacts Brother Qiang at the airport; this unexpected stay br
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On a seaside bench, Fang Lan receives a forwarded letter from Wen Yan, in which a traveler requests the removal of travelogue photos that reveal a private home address, having received no response for some time. She was
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The narrator, who runs a garment processing workshop, receives a phone call informing him that an employee, A Liang, may have had an accident. While worrying about the employee's situation, he also calculates whether his
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After hours, the restaurant receives a handwritten negative review; head chef Gu He recognizes the handwriting as belonging to Lin Ce, a longtime regular, but the complaint in the letter is not about the taste of the dis
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After seeing a post made by his roommate Liu Tianwen, Guo Yunfeng experiences intense unease regarding his relationship with Qin Ning. He constantly checks for new messages, wanting to prevent things from developing furt
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Fang Yue arrives at a post-rain bookstore to attend what was originally scheduled as a public sharing session, only to find just Xu Yan and two chairs remaining, making her worry that the event was an intentionally stage
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Shu Tong goes to a café to meet Jiang Bai, intending to discuss whether to continue their relationship, but he brings travel photos she once wanted to see, mistaking it for an ordinary date. Instead of following the ligh
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He Ran asks Lu Zhi to meet at the flower shop to choose an anniversary bouquet, but what she receives is an unfinished flower stand he made and a request to cancel their expensive dinner. He had been hiding his recent ch
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Yan Ning heads to a restaurant after work for a long-delayed friends' gathering, only for the others to drop out one after another, leaving her alone with Li Yu, who had confessed his feelings to her years ago. She worri
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After a clash in Luoxia City, turbulent spiritual energy still lingers among the ruins, where Mo Renju faces the unextinguished flames of pure Yang. The surviving fragment centers on the battle scene and the confrontatio
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Qi Ning intends to confess feelings to Fang Mo during the opening speech of the weekend exhibition, but upon seeing the other person's discomfort with public attention, decides to cut the pre-written section. After the v
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In the lamp-lit living room, Shu Rui receives a stack of old photos handed over by Wen Cen, one of which has "I like you" written on the back, but she wants to know first whether he is simply reminiscing about the past.
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At the station before parting, Chen Zhi tells Yu Zhou that she used to like him, and that speaking it now is to bring an end to the waiting, not in the hope that he will immediately buy a ticket to follow. Yu Zhou admits
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On the last bus, Lin Lan runs into Zhou Yu, whom she had previously stood up, originally thinking an apology would restore their commuting together, but Zhou Yu says what truly mattered was the continuous lack of explana
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At a weekend exhibition, Xu Yin discovers that the photo captions have been abridged and angrily demands to withdraw the work; Mo Bei then produces the original manuscript, pointing out that a passage might reveal the su
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Ning Shu and Xu Yuan sort through performance costumes in the living room and argue again over an old garment that was altered poorly, only to discover upon unpicking the lining that the fabric had long become brittle an
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