The "Past and Present Tavern" deep in the rain alley is a ferry of time and a container of longing. Shop owner Lu Yining was born with the power of "retrospective". He can follow the old objects and obsessions carried by visitors, travel through the cracks in time and space, and glimpse the love, hate and obsession buried by the years.
The wooden door of the tavern always opens lightly on rainy nights or under the moon: a man in a suit comes with a pocket watch from the Republic of China to find his lost lover, the fresco restorer's bodhi seed hides the millennium promise of the Dunhuang Grottoes, and the archaeologist's hosta locks the unfinished poems of the poets of the Tang Dynasty... Every old thing is a key, and every cup of warm wine reveals a piece of the past.
Lu Yining watched the love in different eras in the intersection of time and space: the determination to convey information with life during the war of the Republic of China, the perseverance to protect the murals in the wind and sand of the desert, the concerns across classes in the prosperous Chang'an, and even the waiting across light years between the stars in the future. She saw the promises torn apart by the flames of war, the promises made eternal by the years, and the constant thoughts separated by death - those people lost in time, those regrets hidden in the heart, will eventually meet again in another way in the warm light of the tavern.
This is a tavern, but also a bridge connecting past and present lives. Here, every story begins with a glass of wine and ends with a sigh or relief; here, all the waiting across time and space has an echo, and all the love buried deep in the heart can be heard. Because some bonds will never be cut off by time, and some deep feelings belong to eternity.
