In the 1920s, Liu Ruyan, the daughter of a tailor shop in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, met Julien, a painter who had returned from studying abroad, at a temple fair.
By chance, they got to know each other over an unfinished portrait. The two broke through the feudal ethics and decided to have a private life, but were opposed by their families. Julien was accidentally involved in
The student movement was arrested, Liu Ruyan waited for three years while pregnant with Liujia, and what finally came was the rumors of Julien's "treason and surrender to the enemy" and an unknown body.
Corpse.