In Tokyo, he is a Chinese computer graphic artist seeking to enrich his exposure while she is a Japanese painter struggling to recover from a broken relationship.

This is the simplest and sweetest of the three stories, starting with hidden mutual attraction and ending in their first meeting.

This is also the only one of the three stories with a "sub-plot" (a really glorified use of the term) of his friendship with two other art students, both girls, one Chinese and one Japanese.

In Taipei, she is a local girl suffering from a broken heart and he is a Japanese visitor she asks in the middle of the night to help putting up a wall unit.

Romance aside, this story also takes a quick jab at the maddening scene of urban development of Shanghai.