In order to avoid conflicts with her mother, young teacher Mu Yu moved from the city to work in a primary school in the town. Strangely, she always felt that a pair of eyes were staring at her on campus, but she could not explain why.
Halfway through the summer vacation, after quarreling with her mother, she returned to the school dormitory. At this time, the principal and the doorman found her and asked her to help deal with the funeral of Qiu Yang, a teacher at the same school who died of a sudden illness and lived alone.
While packing up Qiu Yang's belongings, Mu Yu found an old photo and a diary. After the guard saw it, he invited Mu Yu to sit in his house. As the uncle took out the dusty wooden box, a past incident was revealed...
It doesn't have a big protagonist, it describes the lives of some minor figures in the Republic of China, and the pace is a little slower...