A love story that makes people cry. The story takes place in the summer of 1994, when 24-year-old Lin Yueze resigned from his iron job in Wuhan and boarded the green train heading south. Sitting across from him was Shen Ruoqing, who was studying at Sun Yat-sen University. Sixteen hours of hard seats, the reading of a book, the warmth of a shirt, two young hearts close to each other in the stuffy carriage. Before arriving at the station, the young man who blushed even when he spoke couldn't help but hugged her gently, and then he was rushed away by the crowd and had no time to say goodbye.
For the next thirty years, they lived in the same city, but like two parallel lines, they each experienced the ups and downs of marriage, family, and career. He had placed a missing person notice in the newspaper, and she flipped through the diary countless times late at night. He was only a phone call away from her, and she was only a few steps away from him. Fate gave them countless opportunities to pass by, but they still refused to arrange a real reunion. The past thirty years have experienced touching stories such as reform and opening up, the reform of state-owned enterprises, the surge in housing prices, the Wenchuan earthquake, and two epidemics.
Until May 2026, in the Guangzhou Library, two gray-haired people looked at each other for five or six seconds from a distance of more than ten steps. She didn't come over, and he didn't catch up with her.
This is a story about missing, finding and reconciliation. It is not about love, but about time - and the traces that time leaves on us that can never be erased.
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A love story that makes people cry. The story takes place in the summer of 1994, when 24-year-old Lin Yueze resigned from his iron job in Wuhan and boarded the green train heading south. Sitting across from him was Shen Ruoqing, who was studying at Sun Yat-sen University. Sixteen hours of hard seats, the reading of a book, the warmth of a shirt, two young hearts close to each other in the stuffy carriage. Before arriving at the station, the young man who blushed even when he spoke couldn't help but hugged her gently, and then he was rushed away by the crowd and had no time to say goodbye. For the next thirty years, they lived in the same city, but like two parallel lines, they each experienced the ups and downs of marriage, family, and career.
It's very beautiful and worth watching. The scenes of that era are vivid in my mind and I was moved to tears.
A love story that makes people cry. The story takes place in the summer of 1994, when 24-year-old Lin Yueze resigned from his iron job in Wuhan and boarded the green train heading south. Sitting across from him was Shen Ruoqing, who was studying at Sun Yat-sen University. Sixteen hours of hard seats, the reading of a book, the warmth of a shirt, two young hearts close to each other in the stuffy carriage. Before arriving at the station, the young man who blushed even when he spoke couldn't help but hugged her gently, and then he was rushed away by the crowd and had no time to say goodbye. For the next thirty years, they lived in the same city, but like two parallel lines, they each experienced the ups and downs of marriage, family, and career. It's very beautiful and worth watching. The scenes of that era are vivid in my mind and I was moved to tears.