In Nanjing in 1930, Gu Jinnian met Shen Huaishuang for the first time.
He is the youngest major in the army and is known as "Shuangzi" - as cold as frost and as cruel as a knife, he never looks directly at anyone for more than three seconds.
She was a student at Jinling Women's University. She wrote an article criticizing current ills and was sued to the military.
"Some people feel uncomfortable reading your article." He threw a stack of manuscript paper in front of her. "Leave Nanjing within three days, or shut your mouth."
Gu Jinnian looked into his eyes and smiled stubbornly: "Major Shen, you don't dare to look at people for more than three seconds. What are you afraid of?"
At that moment, Shen Huaishuang made an exception - he looked directly at her for more than three seconds.
Then he saw it.
He saw this woman with gray hair, sitting alone in an old yard, holding an old handkerchief in her hand, with tears on her face but a smile on her lips.
She lived a long, long life. And he wasn't with her.
At that moment, Shen Huaishuang made a decision: he would never love her in this life.
Because his approach would only drag her into the abyss. The scenes of death of everyone close to him that he had seen eventually became reality.
But he doesn't know that some people can't be let go just by avoiding them.
When the flames of war spread across the land of China, when Nanjing fell, Chongqing was bombed, and Shanghai was in turmoil, they met again and again, separated again and again, and took bullets for each other under the enemy's guns again and again.
He thought he was protecting her by pushing her away.
She thought that by being close to him she was following love.
