1943, Shanghai occupied area.
The 23-year-old female writer Shen Zhiwei used her cold writing to cut through people's hearts in troubled times, and her article "Rain Alley" shocked the literary world. Lu Yanzhou, a thirty-eight-year-old newspaper editor-in-chief, holds an important position in the puppet government. He has been in love for several times, but he traveled thousands of miles for her words, knocking on her closed heart.
He understood the loneliness between the lines of her words, and she believed the sincerity in his eyes for a moment.
In the concession where war and rumors intertwined, she took off her cold guard and was willing to "lower into the dust" just because he wrote: "I wish to make the years peaceful and the present world stable."
But there is no peace in troubled times, and it is difficult to be single-minded in love. When he turns around and embraces others, when political stigma follows him like a shadow, the passionate rush that started as a mutual respect for talents ends up becoming a heart-burning fantasy.
After suffering in silence for a year and a half, she sent a farewell letter with three hundred thousand silver dollars attached: "I don't like you anymore."
From then on, she no longer wrote for anyone, but only spoke for millions of silent women. Standing up from the ashes of love, she founded a girls' school, wrote books, and regained the light in the ashes - it turns out that true love is not low-income, but spontaneous combustion.
"Chen Guang Lu" is based on a very controversial emotional prototype in the Republic of China, but it tells a more tenacious story of female awakening.
This is not only a tragic love song in troubled times, but also a soul journey about female self-salvation, female independence and the power of words.
She once put out fire for love,
In the end it became light.
