In 1933, in the turbulent Peiping, the modern soul traveled through time and became Yu Ning, a female student from Peking University. The crisis of broken mountains and rivers shrouded the world. Carrying the memories of a hundred years later, she took root in studying in panic, and devoted herself to the torrent of anti-Japanese and national salvation with her meager strength.
At a literary and art exchange meeting, she met Wen Shiyang, a talented piano player who had returned from China. He came from an ordinary background but was extremely talented. He gave up his promising future abroad and went to Peking University to study literature. He has a youthful demeanor hidden in his gentle brows and eyes. The music of the piano struck her heart for the first time, and the two walked side by side in reading clubs, street lectures, and translations of the school magazine, and a secret love arose.
However, there is no room for stability in troubled times, and the righteousness of family and country is intertwined with the love of children. They join hands in the wave of student movements, and also experience separation and reunion in the torrent of the times. At the same time, the emergence of Percy, a Chinese-American mixed-race young man, added a different kind of fetters to this period, and also allowed Yu Ning to write about the passion and perseverance of the youth of the Republic of China between ideals, emotions, and choices about family and country.
