This is not a simple love story.
This is a story about "remembering".
I remember the children's words under the peach blossom tree, the life and death moment when the guns were facing each other, the wire ring in the ruins, and the hard-won peace and prosperity.
Shen Taoyao and Gu Linyuan are two small figures in troubled times. They are not perfect, they can calculate, they can be suspicious, they can be afraid, they can break down and cry late at night.
But they are brave enough.
Be brave enough to light a lamp in the darkness, be brave enough to believe in a tomorrow in despair, be brave enough to use your flesh and blood to draw a light on the iron curtain of history.
And what that light illuminates is the reunion after ten years of separation, the peach blossoms that bloom again when the smoke clears, and the hands that are still held tightly when the gray hair is gray.
It is the extraordinary persistence that every ordinary person like you and me makes for themselves, their loved ones, and their country in the tide of the times.
If the peach blossoms are in full bloom, I will return with you.
This story is dedicated to all those who still believe in the light in the darkness.
