In the turbulent times of the Republic of China, a piece of piano music brought about half a lifetime of bad luck.
Cheng Jingyun, a descendant of the Suzhou Guqin family, is responsible for the CCP's underground intelligence, using his identity as a romantic businessman as a cover. Lin Suxian, a talented girl from a scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River, was extremely talented in playing the guqin, but she fell into prostitution due to family troubles. At a guqin appreciation party, he approached for a mission, and she fell in love with her bosom friend. Little did she know that this encounter was destined to be a disaster or not fate.
The "Qingyin Pavilion" piano workshop has become the front line of the secret war, and the seven strings and thirteen emblems of the guqin hide the Morse code. Cheng Jingyun makes a difficult choice between national justice and the personal love of his children, while Lin Suxian struggles with family grievances and true love and falsehood. When the strings of the piano are stained with blood and the true heart is stained with dust, the song "Guangling San" will eventually become immortal.
Ten years of entanglement spanned three major historical periods: the Northern Expedition, the Anti-Japanese War, and the War of Liberation. From Suzhou to Chongqing, from Nanjing to Shanghai, they met three times and separated three times in troubled times. The last time, he went north to escort the national treasure Guqin and was shot and fell into the Yangtze River; she found the music score he left behind on the shore. On the back were his last words written in blood: "Su Xian, I have lied countless times in my life, but I love you every word sincerely."
This work is based on the art of guqin, an intangible cultural heritage, and closely interweaves personal emotions with the fate of the country and the country, showing the difficulties of cultural inheritance and the life choices of intellectuals in troubled times. It is not only a soul-stirring love tragedy, but also a historical picture depicting the vicissitudes of the Republic of China.
In the turbulent times of the Republic of China, a piece of piano music brought about half a lifetime of bad luck.
Cheng Jingyun, a descendant of the Suzhou Guqin family, is an underground intelligence agent of the CCP.
