This is a heart-warming story about ordinary people and ordinary things.
Lu Chen, a retired soldier, followed his comrade Zhou Hai's death and followed his last words to "help me take care of my family." He guarded a dilapidated car repair shop alone, living an ordinary life while looking for the "family members" Zhou Hai said.
However, fate did not let him remain silent. A case involving the disappearance of a veteran involved him in a cross-border shady case. He went to Myanmar alone and rescued five trapped comrades from a black mining area; he tracked the mastermind behind the scenes and uncovered a trafficking gang that had been established for many years; he helped an old man who had been kidnapped for 40 years to find his son and reunite a broken family.
In the process, he met female reporter Fang Lin, hacker monkey, Burmese Chinese Lao Dao, and a group of brothers who have also experienced the test of life and death - Zhang Qiang, Li Wei, Wang Jun, Zhao Gang, and Liu Yang. They went from strangers to life-and-death friends, from being alone to a family.
He also met Zhou Hai's widow Lin Jing and daughter Nian Nian. From initial care to long-lasting love, he stepped into the lives of the mother and daughter. And when Niannian called out "Dad" for the first time, he knew that this was the "family member" entrusted to him by Zhou Hai.
The story spans more than thirty years, from Lu Chen's youth to his old age, from a one-man car repair shop to a large family of dozens of people, from fighting alone to united efforts. There is the brotherhood of life and death, the long-lasting love between husband and wife, and the warmth of family passed down from generation to generation.
The glimmers of earthly light gather together to form warmth.
