The encounter between the two began in a tense dusk in the North China War Zone. He worked day and night to evacuate the masses, while she took risks for frontline interviews. The first confrontation is the resonance and attraction between idealists. Their feelings did not have any earth-shattering confessions, but only grew quietly in the tacit support on the march, the profound exchange of ideas under the dim oil lamp, and the smiles at each other when sharing a piece of dry food. He described to her what the New China in his dream would look like, and her lens silently recorded him and the countless ordinary heroes he represented.
However, the biggest test came suddenly. Chen Xinghe was ordered to perform an extremely dangerous mission. Before leaving, he gave Zhiyao a book full of annotations. On the title page was her familiar handwriting: "Waiting for the dawn." Then, the bad news of his death came, and Shen Zhiyao was almost defeated by the huge grief.
But when she opened the book that infiltrated his thoughts and life, what she saw was not the end of love, but the passing on of mission. She takes his unfinished ideals to a wider world, and uses her pen and lens to let the light of his spirit continue to illuminate the road ahead.
