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Bitter Love

Original title: 苦涩的爱

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After drinking with Li Qiang, Xiao Lin prepares to pick up Xue'er, but is called back just as he is leaving the table. An inquiry concerning an old video turns his suppressed unease into anger.

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Inside a barbecue restaurant on a rainy night, Xiao Lin's mind remains on Xue'er, leaving him with no heart to keep listening to Li Qiang reminisce about the past. He gets up to leave, but Li Qiang catches up to ask about the previous video footage. Xiao Lin responds that it has already been deleted, his attitude visibly displeased. Through an entanglement between friends, this surviving fragment presents the unresolved tension between private information and intimate relationships.

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