A startling glance at the wisteria corridor of the High School Affiliated to Peking University caused school eldest son Shen Yanzhou's mutton-fat jade ring to wrap around the ginkgo hairpin of transfer student Su Wanyi. He is a well-behaved gentleman carefully crafted by a century-old family, but his annotations to the Book of Songs are full of fiery verses; she is a jewel hidden in a sea of people by cultural relic restorers, using mineral pigments to draw secrets that can only be revealed by candlelight on the pages of ancient books.
When Shen Yanzhou "confiscated" the peach blossom paper on her desk as the president of the student council, no one noticed that the handwriting of the Shen family ancestors on the golden wedding book that slipped from his sleeve quietly overlapped with the ancient painting fragments restored by Su Wanyi. On the day when the red list was torn apart by the spring breeze, he knelt in the ancestral hall for three nights and copied the "Chu Ci", in exchange for which the word "Yi" on the ancient jade was revealed; she repaired the broken mirror left by Shen's mother in the rain, and peeled out a half sentence of "I would like to follow the flowing water to your presence" from the patina.
When the ginkgo leaves fell for the seventh time by the Weiming Lake, in the glass cabinet of the Forbidden City's special exhibition, the fragments of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" from the Northern Song Dynasty were juxtaposed with the golden wedding letters from the Republic of China. Two names are engraved side by side on the exhibition label - Professor Shen Yanzhou of the Department of History, and Su Wanyi, a restorer of cultural relics.
Everyone in the world marvels at the perfect match of the fragrance of ink and ancient porcelain, but they don't know that in the ancient book library, the eighteen-year-olds have already written their entire lives in the yellowed folds of "The Romance of the West Chamber".
