Yeh and Lin did not vanish from each other's lives. Yeh was still present at every meeting, her feedback on the script as precise and composed as ever. To an outsider, nothing had changed. The only thing that had truly disappeared was the "personal."
Yeh found this state of calm far safer for her, making her feel peaceful.
Occasionally, a faint sense of loss would surface when she was alone, but she reminded herself firmly:
Human nature is such that people always feel the absence of something more than its presence.
And without expectation, there can be no disappointment. If she maintained this distance, then once the project was over, they could simply go their separate ways, leaving everything behind.