Silent Snowfall Vs. Turns Out You’re Here Too

Original titles: Bridge and Silent Falling Snow

Retitled: So You Were Here All Along

Li Suxin, who loves literature, and Wu Yan, who loves with all his heart, were influenced by their families’ moral codes. Though they went through many breakups and reconciliations, they let reason overcome the blind impulses of emotion. Alongside the friends they met on life’s journey, they came to understand that marriage had made them mature, while friendship had shown them that what matters most, both in virtual relationships online and in real-life ones, is sincerity that never deceives.

After Zheng Yi, who had finally found happiness through love, suddenly passed away, Wu Qing, who worked in a literary column, and Dong Huagang, who worked at the Public Security Bureau, shared a heart-to-heart conversation. From then on, they listened intently to the purple rice orchids, so sparse in their struggle to survive; frame after frame of hand-drawn animations; the cold, knife-like gaze that love could bring; and the yearning that hovered between closeness and distance. Only then did they write down the stories behind every tangled emotion, weaving into them a profound understanding of friendship, love, and family, and of the preciousness of true devotion.

Calligraphy and painting, gnarled vines... the older generation’s emotional expressions; the sea, snowflakes, lamplight... the young people’s poetic release of emotion. A group of young entrepreneurs living in the 1970s found meaning in life under the protection of their elders. They saw the most beautiful “bridges” in life and, drawing on their own journeys, came to understand the poignant feeling of snow falling without a sound.