A watch spanning eighty-two years, the rift and healing of half of the country's mountains and rivers
In 1911, the broken enamel porcelain in the palace opened up the intertwined fates of Lin Jingshu, Shen Mingyuan and Lu Jingyun. She is one of the last apprentices in the restoration of cultural relics in the Forbidden City, he is a cutting-edge businessman who saves the country through industry, and he is the legitimate son of a warlord who holds military power. The friendship between childhood sweethearts and the shackles of interest marriage were tempered into cracks like glass in the artillery fire of the Revolution of 1911.
When the iron hooves of the Japanese army broke through the gates of Peiping, Lin Jingshu put down the bristle brush used to restore cultural relics and grasped the battlefield scalpel; Shen Mingyuan's underground chamber of commerce turned into red blood, weaving a medicine transportation network in the occupied areas; Lu Jingyun led his troops to defend the Great Wall Pass, and the cinnabar seal on the marriage certificate was dyed blood by artillery fire. A broken pocket watch traveled across the strait for forty years, but the restored enamel porcelain bottle was always missing the most critical fragment - that was the sharp past that the young man caught with his bare hands to save her in the summer of 1911.
In the spring of 1993, an 80-year-old woman unfolded oil-paper bags by the Kunming Lake. On the knees of the white-haired general returning from across the strait, cracks in the celadon ice grew windingly in the morning light. Behind the three century old men, the lotus flowers in Weiming Lake bloomed and faded, the glazed tiles of the Forbidden City were broken and repaired, and only the moonlight on the Seventeen-hole Bridge still illuminated those unspoken promises and heartbeats.
This broken place of mountains and rivers was originally the place where we fell in love
