White Moonlight, Old Times

In 1937 in Peking, medical student Chen Zhibai and Lin Wan, a girl from an aristocratic family, made a private marriage under the ginkgo tree in Beihai Park. When the war broke out, he was forced to go south, promising to return when the ginkgo leaves turned yellow. Lin Wan waited six years, but received false news that Zhibai had been "killed in battle" and was forced to marry a business woman. She didn't know that when Zhibai returned from a narrow escape, he saw her sedan chair disappearing at the end of the long street. For the next sixty-six years, Chen Zhibai wrote a letter every year when the ginkgo leaves turned yellow and sent it to the address that no longer existed. In 2023, granddaughter Chen Nian found an iron box full of unopened letters in the attic of her old house. She followed the yellowed postmarks and embarked on a search, and unexpectedly found the dying Lin Wan in a nursing home in Jiangnan. The old man's memory has long been blurred, but he hummed the song he loved most when he was young to a dry ginkgo leaf. Chen Nian trembled and read the last letter for his grandfather: "Wanwan, the ginkgo has turned yellow again, but I can no longer catch up with the moon in the North Sea."