Su Jinxiu and Gu Huaian sat in the courtyard, watching the sunset.
“Huaian, if there’s another life, would you want to meet me again?”
“In every life, a thousand times over, I’ll meet you.”
(Flashback) Young Su Jinxiu held her three children in a ramshackle hut, chewing on coarse buns as a blizzard raged outside. One of the children asked, “Mom, can we survive?”
Her voice carried across time: “Just surviving isn’t enough. We’re going to make one hell of a comeback.”
(Distant view) A tiny flame grew into a wildfire.
