Modern girl Lin Wanxing accidentally binds to the Starfire Support System. The supermarket in the backyard of her family’s old house can actually travel through time, disguising itself as a farmhouse along the Long March route in 1934. Without telling her family, she uses the supermarket’s hot porridge, noodles, and medicine to help the starving, freezing Red Army soldiers. It becomes a warm haven in their hearts.
She sees thirteen-year-old boy scout Xiao Shitou gnawing on frozen dried sweet potatoes, yet giving up his food rations; she sees female medic Chen Lan treating her comrades despite her injuries; she sees Company Commander Li give his fever medicine to a new recruit and tough out his own raging fever. The supermarket’s light is a hidden glimmer along the Long March.
The secret is finally discovered by her 98-year-old great-grandfather, Lin Zhenshan. A former Red Army bugler, he once watched helplessly as his squad leader sacrificed himself to save him on the grasslands eighty years ago. When he learns that the supermarket can return to the Long March, the old man trembles as he puts on his old uniform, asking only to see his comrades once more.
Later, Lin Wanxing’s family decides to hand the supermarket over to the state. The System transforms into a passage through time. As her white-haired great-grandfather takes the hand of the young squad leader, and the Red Army soldiers see today’s high-speed trains racing by and the nation at peace through the passage, tears and blood shed across eighty years become the deepest tribute to the fallen heroes. This is a story of descendants protecting those who came before them, and of passing down faith and love for one’s country.
