[Period Romance and Coming-of-Age] [Bittersweet] [Low-Key]
In Litchi Town in the 1980s, Lin Xiaoli falls, and Su Fan catches her. Unspoken feelings hide beneath the sweet fragrance of lychees. He takes the dried lychees she made and heads to the city, working his way up from a laborer to the head of lychee procurement. She stays in her hometown to improve the varieties, becoming the "Lychee Beauty" who leads the villagers to prosperity.
When he returns home in the new millennium to build a purchasing base, she worries it will harm the ecosystem. The white shirt and straw hat from their memories collide with reality. He discovers the old letter she hid away, and she spots the faded dried lychees in his briefcase. It turns out all his years on the road were for the sake of standing by her in the lychee grove amid the tides of change, and letting their youthful promise bear fruit when the hills are covered in red lychees.
After weathering countless storms, he takes the lychee as his reminder and makes a vow in the familiar orchard. From then on, their dream of protecting the lychee grove and their love of exploring the world find a perfect ending in the warmth of everyday life.
And their story, too, will write its first sweet and bittersweet lines in this season of cicadas and red lychees.
