This is a healing love story that spans time and space, telling the indissoluble bond between three generations formed by music and letters. The story begins with the regretful love between Gu Yunshen, a musician studying in France during the Republic of China, and the talented girl Jasmine who were forced to separate. Their story continues to this day through an unfinished "Jasmine Variations", hundreds of unsent love letters and a dusty vinyl record.
Many years later, their daughter Lin Xi unexpectedly met Yun Shen's nephew Gu Yan, and they fell in love with each other in the process of uncovering family secrets. The two of them continued writing the unfinished piano piece together to make up for the regrets of the previous generation. Their daughter Xiaonian, through the letters, records and passwords found in the attic of the old house, completed a dialogue that spanned time and space, allowing the emotions of the three generations to be fulfilled in music and words.
The story is set against the backdrop of the literary atmosphere of Paris' Left Bank and the classical aesthetics of Hangzhou's Jiangnan mist. It explores the eternal themes of family, love and inheritance through moving settings such as "music travels through time and space", "letters convey deep feelings", and "voiceprints continue memories". When the gramophone plays the recording of father's love in 1983, when the unfinished score is continued in 2023, and when the secrets buried under the century-old jasmine tree are revealed, we will finally understand: some love will never fade with time.
This is a work suitable for readers who yearn for romance, cherish memories, and believe in true love. It has the beauty of time and space like "Love Letter" and the affectionate waiting like "The Time Traveler's Wife". When the piano sounded again on the banks of the Seine, that
