"Dang Gui No Time: Letters of Unreached in Troubled Times"
——A life-and-death watch in the flames of war, a journey home that never arrives.
In 1937, on the night of the fall of Nanjing, Xu Guangsheng, a pharmacy apprentice, rescued the female student Xu Ruping from the ruins. Two young people who had never met each other were bound by life and death under the butcher knife of the Japanese army. However, encounters in troubled times are destined to be accompanied by parting...
When Guang Sheng was arrested for saving his younger brother, Ru Ping offered to join the military in exchange for his freedom. When saying goodbye on the platform, she took off her copper whistle and said, "I'll come find you when the jasmine blooms again."
However, promises in troubled times are like seeds buried in the snow——
Some promises never wait until spring.
From Nanjing to Yichang, from Juntong to Yan'an, the two young men and women struggled to keep watch in the torrent of the times. When medical skills could not save the country, when the whistle could not be heard far away, they used the humblest gesture to write the most heroic struggle.
The poison sewn on the collar of Guangsheng's mother, the copper whistle used by Ruping's roommate when she died, the secret letter hidden in the jasmine flower - those unspoken instructions all turned into sparks in the ashes.
All the important words are never finished in time. All the people I wanted to see could not meet again after all.
"Angelica sinensis is warm in nature and can cure the disease of leaving the soul."
"But troubled times are like a knife, and the most painful thing is that there is no time to return."
