(Yicai Global) June 4 -- “Which floor is our office on?”Wang Shan, who works for an architecture firm in Shenzhen, grew up in Wuhan. She went back to her hometown as usual for the Chinese New Year in January and was thus stranded by the lockdown.

In the first week after the city lifted curbs on movement Wang loved to amble in Guanggu, which is home to many of the central Chinese transit hubs’s large tech companies. The area, which is also replete with shopping malls, parks, hotels and many other facilities is always bustling. She went to Guanggu because she just wanted to see somewhere which “wasn’t quite so deserted” in the city of 11 million residents.

She stopped at a florist’s in the district to buy flowers on Mothers’ Day. Business was good at the flower shop, a staffer told her, saying weddings this year have been deferred, but fortunately not canceled.

He Meng has postponed her wedding twice. She and her fiancé planned to tie the knot in April but put off the ceremony to July and then to October. She really hopes she won’t have to delay it again.

She hasn’t eaten out since the city lifted the lockdown and only bought a hamburger at McDonald's once and ate it standing by the roadside because the Golden Arches wouldn’t allow dining in.

This special period of time has made He feel as if in a trance. She even had to call her colleague and ask, “Which floor is our office on?” when she got on the elevator in her office building on her first day back at work.

Editor: Ben Armour