Beyond the Tide

Wei Xi is drunk at a street corner on the night her relationship ends, waiting for a car, when a black sedan stops in front of her. It belongs to Zhou Yushen, and at Jian'an Group everyone knows without saying it that his schedule does not stop for anyone. He gets out and bends down to hold an umbrella over her, then lets her cry in the car for forty-seven minutes without hurrying her. She asks him what he is getting out of it. He says he wants the tide to keep its word and stop for him. Earlier, at one of the company seminars, she had been called out by name and moved into the front row, and no reason was given for it at the time.