You Came Like A Spark

You Came Like A Spark Plot:

Lin Xiaoman, a 30-year-old advertising worker crushed by KPIs, stumbles into the "Starlight Bookstore" in a deep old alley after getting lost during an all-nighter. The owner Gu Zhao, always boiling ginger tea under warm yellow lights, crashes into her gray life like a spark: he helps her retrieve the策划案 (proposal) soaked by rain, accompanies her to eat roasted sweet potatoes at the alley mouth and talk about her forgotten painting dream, even leaves hot congee downstairs from her company when she works late into the night. But just as Xiaoman finally dares to reach out to life, she finds Gu Zhao's ID is blank—an old man at the alley mouth says: this bookstore only opens once every ten years, waiting for a "dying person", and sparks, have never been meant to stay…