In Chang'an in the 13th year of the Republic of China, the sound of horse hooves on the bluestone road was the clearest footnote to Shen Qingci and Gu Yanchen's youth.
She is a gentle lady from a scholarly family, and her father Shen Yanzhi is a famous and well-educated scholar in Chang'an City; he is a rebellious young man from a warlord family. As the second son of Commander Gu, he loves spending time in the Shen family's study. One is immersed in the fragrance of ink and poetry, and the other grows up in gunfire and intrigues. The two people who were supposed to have different paths have become the most special existence in each other's lives because of the friendship between their fathers.
The window lattice of Shen Qingci's embroidery building was always open for the figure wearing a military green short coat; while Gu Yanchen was busy with his troops, what he missed most was the fragrance of ink in the Shen family's study and the silk flowers on her temples. The friendship between childhood sweethearts quietly fermented in the spring of Chang'an, but they didn't know that the war was already ignited in the distance.
When the Kwantung Army's iron hoof approached, Gu Yanchen lost his youthfulness, put on his military uniform and rushed to the battlefield; Shen Yanzhi was involved in the whirlpool of the current situation because he insisted on his literary character. The poems on the old desks were torn into pieces by the flames of war, and the sound of horse hooves on the bluestone road was stained with blood. The peace charm she sewed for him became his only thought in the rain of bullets; the letters he wrote home in the flames of war were full of nostalgia for the moonlight in Chang'an.
The collision of gun tip and ink pen, the intertwining of war and love letters, their love suffered in troubled times. Should we stick to our original aspirations and protect each other in the flames of war? Or is it being carried away by the tide of the times and taking a different path? The begonias in Chang'an have bloomed and withered, and their story has just begun in the flames of war.
