If history is a heavy book, then 18-year-old Lin Xiaoyue is the "scumbag" who can never turn to the first page.
Until she broke a pocket watch riddled with bullet holes in a museum.
The hour hand goes against the current, and the heaven and earth turn upside down.
——When I opened my eyes again, it was south of Beijing in 1937. Artillery fire tore through the sky, and the mountains and rivers were about to be shattered.
Here she is an out-of-place spectator.
The history textbook turned into a hell of blood and fire before her eyes. She witnessed the tragedy and pain of Jingnan, and met Chen Muyun, a student who cherished the ideal of "scientific salvation", and Tiezhu, a simple and brave little soldier, in the flames of war. From panic to being forced to move forward, she became a witness to this period of history.
From southern Beijing to Kunming City, from the "continuous singing" of the Southwest Associated University to the tragic "Death Flag" on the front line of western Hubei...
For eight years, she used her pen as her eye to draw classrooms in ruins, record the last smiles of soldiers, and witness Tiezhu's heroic sacrifice while shouting "Help me see the new China."
When the cheers of victory in the Anti-Japanese War resounded through the sky, the pocket watch in her hand also sent a signal to return.
Facing her lover Chen Muyun, who was destined to be separated forever, she made a promise: "I will see thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the future for you."
——Suddenly she had a dream, and she returned to the museum, with the pocket watch still warm in her hand.
Outside the window is a busy and peaceful world, as if nothing has ever happened.
But that memory has been cast into her soul.
From then on, the scumbag who turned in blank papers disappeared.
She will spend her whole life working hard to fulfill her promise to that era - using my pen to paint your name; using my life to see a prosperous age that you have never seen.
