On the day of the funeral, a strange old man came with a faded velvet flower pinned to the lapel of his cheongsam.
She caressed the coffin tremblingly: "This material... Was originally the one in the window of Xiafei Road in 1943."
The granddaughter found a diary containing magnolia specimens among the belongings——
"He always said he would marry me when there is peace, but promises in troubled times are as thin as the moonlight in the concession."
Turning to the last page, the pen blurred out a new line of small regular letters:
"Last night I dreamed again that you were wearing a crimson cheongsam and looking back at the tram stop.
It turns out that for some people, missing out will last three generations. "
It is a coming-of-age story that spans three generations and looks at how the heroine survives in troubled times and eventually transforms into a great heroine.
