Child's Play

In the 16th year of the Republic of China, Peking. In the east courtyard of the theater troupe "Baoxingtang" lived two famous actors - Shen Yanqing, a male dancer, and Lin Shuangbi, a Qingyi Kunling from the Cheng School. One is 27 years old and the other is 21 years old. They have been in the same class since childhood. They are husband and wife and sisters on stage, but they dare not say a word in the audience. The teacher's sect, the rules of the profession, and the male male senior brother who has been taken care of by a "Seventh Master" since he was ten years old - all the words are stuck in his throat. In the spring of that year, a twelve-year-old apprentice moved into the east courtyard. His name is Wang Mantang, and everyone in the class calls him "Xiao Man'er". This story took him a lifetime to piece together - he remembered the night when his senior brother came back barefoot from Qiye's house, the first time his senior sister spoke to him with only three sentences, the first time Warlord Zhang slapped the table and applauded, the master's silence one night, the day when his senior sister was admitted... He didn't understand anything. By the time he understood, he was already gone. This is a story about missing, but also a story about drama—— In the play, they have been playing "can't be together" for a lifetime. Off-screen, their lives become the drama.