During the "128" Songhu bombardment in 1932, Mo Yanxue, the young master of Jinxiu Pavilion, and his childhood sweetheart Qi Changji were forced to separate - she took mulberry branches to France, and he joined the army with his pen; she grew broken branches into new trees in the greenhouse of the University of Lyon, wrote wartime economic papers with wisteria ink, met bridge engineer Tan Taisu, and found a second heartbeat between gears and steel cables.
After completing her studies and returning to China, she carried her father's last words: "Mo's family has been relying on people for hundreds of years, not silk, but the people who organize the tangled silk into warp and weft." She traveled throughout the West Yunnan Gorge: Nu River Bridge No. 47, Xueji Bridge, Lancang River Sister Bridge... Each bridge pier is embedded with a copper gear, a mulberry branch, and a drop of cinnabar blood.
When there was no news from Chang Ji in southern Anhui, and when Dang Su disappeared on a rainy night, she still guarded the mulberry tree at the bridgehead, weaving the return journey inch by inch into spring - until New Year's Day in 1941, when the snow cleared, the first military truck drove across the new bridge. The lights illuminated not only the canyon, but also her figure connecting the isolated islands into the mainland with her own hands.
