Synopsis of the story "The Skylight Under the Old Locust Tree"
Mei Fang Lane in Shanghai, an old alley filled with fireworks, has become a stage for class collision and redemption of people's hearts. Lin Xiaotang guarded the "Xiaotang Workshop" left behind by her mother, renovating old objects to maintain the warmth of the alley, and even prepared a "memory exhibition" to preserve the memory of the neighborhood; while Shen Yizhou, who left the alley when he was young, returned as the CEO of Shengjing Real Estate, carrying a demolition task, and became an elite who "forgot the warmth of the alley" in Xiaotang's eyes.
A storm of demolition broke out: Zhang Lei withheld compensation and induced Chen Xi to hide Shen's mother's prescription book. Residents isolated Xiaotang due to misunderstandings, and the wall of class separated the former friendship. The life-and-death emergency on a typhoon night became a turning point - Grandma Zhao suffered a heart attack. Xiaotang and Shen Yizhou worked together to rescue her. Shen Yizhou finally woke up and realized his mother's teachings of "seeing people's hearts clearly". Chen Xi also woke up and betrayed Zhang Lei.
From opposition to side by side, the two promoted the "partial preservation" plan: preserving old locust trees, converting old clinics into medical stations, setting up community welfare posts, and unexpectedly discovered an old well from the Republic of China, which gave the memory of the alley a physical basis. Shen Yizhou resigned as CEO and established the Old Town Renovation Division. After Chen Xi obtained a residence permit through workshop work, he returned to support his fellow villagers. Shen's father was also moved by the warmth of the alley.
In the end, amid the sound of firecrackers for the start of construction of the new apartment, and the old locust trees covered with wish cards, Xiaotang and Shen Yizhou looked at the residents hugging each other and understood: the so-called "skylight" is never the light of the physical space, but the warmth of the connection between people after class barriers have been eliminated. It is the affection of the old alley that will never dissipate amidst the changes of the times.
