Winter 1918, Peiping. Philosophy student Shen Yubai met auditor Lin Zhiyi in the library. She flipped through an old book and read: "Barbarian sentiments are unpredictable and cannot be understood or moved." She said that this was not talking about foreigners, but all people with guns in their hands.
From the Zhaojialou on May 4th to the loft in Paris, from the Shanghai cotton mill to the May 30th massacre - the two young people pledged their love and ideals to the times. On May 30, 1925, Lin Zhiyi collapsed in a pool of blood on Nanjing Road. She left him a school badge, a copy of "Les Misérables", and the words "I'll come as soon as I go."
For the next thirty-four years, Shen Yubai walked the long road of two people alone. From the Long March to Yan'an, from the Anti-Japanese War to the founding of the People's Republic of China, he wrote one letter after another that could never be sent.
In 1959, pomegranate flowers bloomed. With gray hair, he returned to his old courtyard in Peiping and spread his life's letters under the tree.
Those things they believed in and lived for are continuing to burn in the lives of others.
