In the autumn of 1933, Xie Shuying, the legitimate daughter of the Xie family in the south of the Yangtze River, went north to marry into the Shen family, a prominent family in Beiping, in order to save the family's fate. She was prepared to spend a marriage in which they respected each other like "ice", but found that her fiancé Shen Yunzhou was no longer the pale shadow under the control of the family.
He is an architect who returned from studying abroad, and he is also a guardian who works for his country in the dark night. He broke into her world with a cool breeze and an unknown secret. He taught her that "buildings are the history books of stone" and showed her the unyielding backbone of a nation in the dark and stormy times.
From Peking to Shanghai, from Jinling to Chongqing... In the war-torn era, they took marriage as the starting point, got to know each other, loved each other, stayed with each other, and served as each other's lights in the dark night. However, when the country is broken and the mountains and rivers are in disarray, the deepest love often requires the most decisive farewell to be fulfilled.
"Yunzhou, you once said that you would rebuild a city for me that would never fall."
"Shu Ying, remember what this city looks like. In the future, our children will be born in a real and peaceful era."
This is a marriage that started out of helplessness, a love tempered into steel in troubled times. They spent their lives interpreting the broadest form of "love" - not just holding their son's hand, but also sharing the same robe with him.
