In Shanghai in the 1930s, bank talent Su Ci and singer Zi Yan passed each other on a rainy night at Paramount, and they had a startling glimpse. He gave her pearl earrings, which he described as "the love hidden in pearls" - some feelings need no words, but are pure and clear in the heart. However, in troubled times, she was forced to marry a businessman, and he left for Hong Kong, leaving only a farewell message of "Don't write again."
Separated for half his life, he guarded the unsent letter and single earring, waiting alone in the depths of time. She withered in a loveless marriage, treasured all his letters, and wrote a diary that no one knew about on the back of the envelope. When the smoke cleared and they met again, she was seriously ill, and he spent all he had to stay together for three years, but in the end they were still separated forever.
For the next forty years, he remained unmarried, guarding his old house and his beloved Jasmine, and writing the longest love letter of his life in the rainy season year after year. Until the end of his life, he held the pearl earring that he had been waiting for all his life and passed away peacefully on a moonlit night.
This is a story about "Love is a silent galaxy" - it is not in the vows made day and night, but in the unsent 38th letter, the trembling annotation on the back of the envelope, the unfinished "Don't wait for your beloved" before the sickbed, and two lonely souls that always reflect each other in the torrent of the times. When Canghai finally holds out the pearl that has been hidden by the years, people understand: the most extreme love can be silent for half a century and still remain as pure as ever.
