Raining in the Human World

The city’s rainy season always arrives without warning. When neon lights blur through the mist and late-night streets are left with only solitary shadows, pushing open the door of the "Bu Wan" convenience store reveals a proprietor who is forever brewing coffee. He does not sell umbrellas; he offers only a seat to shelter from the rain. He has listened to the despair of a delivery driver trapped in the loop of a fatal accident, witnessed the tears of a ghost waiting eternally for a first love, and accepted countless exchanges of "most painful memories" for moments of peace. Some call him a deity; others label him a fraud. Only he knows the truth: he is merely an "Umbrella Bearer," stranded in the human realm by the deluge, using one rainstorm after another to stitch up the regrets of others. But when the resentments he has washed away begin to flow backward, and his own past is torn open by violent winds, a haunting question remains. Has this rain, falling for centuries, been redeeming humanity, or punishing him? "Welcome. We do not close on rainy days. Finish your coffee, and it will be time to say goodbye."