In the autumn of the 17th year of the Republic of China, on Xiafei Road in the French Concession in Shanghai, the cheongsam shop "Jinse" quietly opened. The owner Xu Yanqing has a pair of eyes that can measure people's hearts - she can judge the height of the left shoulder from the way a customer walks, and read a person's thoughts that have been hidden for many years from the curvature of a plate buckle.
That autumn, three women walked into Jinse one after another.
Zhu Anlan has been married to a wealthy family for three years, but her husband's chair is always empty and the bruises on her arms are piled one on top of another. She came to order three cheongsams, the first one was lake blue, the second one was dark purple, and the third one she named "Blue after the rain" - not the color, but the wish.
Fu Sinian begged all the way from Peking to Shanghai, which took more than 40 days. She is the best embroiderer in Nangong's embroidery shop. She is not escaping from a debt, but from a person. Nangong Shunhua, the third daughter of the Nangong family, put on the cheongsam she had embroidered on the day of the engagement, canceled the marriage with her own hands, and got on the train south alone.
And Xu Yanqing himself couldn't escape one person's gaze. Teacher Feng Jincheng brought four unfinished cheongsams left by his mother - spring, summer, autumn and winter. The stitches were broken in the autumn of the 14th year of the Republic of China. She took the needle and thread and continued stitch by stitch: the needle was inserted deeply and the needle returned shallow, exactly like the Shen Xiuying she had never met before.
The emotions of three pairs of men and women (women) are entangled, growing and waiting in a small cheongsam shop. Some people are waiting for an answer, some are waiting for a relief, and some are waiting for a hug that rushes regardless.
There is no time travel, no car accidents, and no substitutes. There are only cheongsams, only the sycamore leaves on Xiafei Road, and only that sentence——
"Whenever you come, the door will be opened."
