So the World Is This Sad

When love meets sorrow, there is the sweetness of the Republican era, the bitterness of the War of Resistance against Japan, and the sourness of the years before reform and opening up. Amid life's many different faces, he falls in love with the gentle way she lowers her head without thinking. He teaches her a phrase in English: I have a crush on you. It doesn't mean I love you, but that I'm infatuated with you, deeply infatuated. Only after she has lived through most of her life does she realize that a lifetime is not enough to truly fall in love with someone. It turns out love can be so simple, and so sorrowful.