In the third year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty, it snowed heavily on New Year's Eve. Arrows pierced him in the north school field of Lin'an City. He knelt in the snow and said sorry three times. She rushed over and stuffed half a baked potato into his mouth. He said he would buy it for her to eat in his next life, and then the light in his eyes disappeared.
This separation lasted nine hundred years.
Four reincarnations, three farewells. The snow in the execution ground, the prison car at the dock, and the water crossing the river, every encounter in his life ended in his tragic death. She waited by the Qiantang River for nine hundred years, sewn the broken apricot belt for seven lifetimes, and put up a lotus lantern without a name on it every year during the Chinese New Year. The lantern drifted westward against the current, towards the Wanghu embankment - he bent down on the embankment and picked up the lantern.
AD 2025, Xishan, Hangzhou. The grotto that had been covered in dust for nine hundred years was finally revealed, and half a piece of ancient mutton-fat jade, an apricot-yellow ribbon, and a broken bronze bell were unearthed. Shen Wanghu, an ancient building restorer, and Su Jinling, the intangible inheritor of Hangzhou embroidery, met for the first time in the cultural relics museum. There was a red mark on his tiger's mouth, and a plum blossom scar under her collarbone. The two marks beat at the same frequency and have not stopped for nine hundred years.
From the Southern Song Dynasty to modern times, from the execution ground to the wedding ceremony, from the broken tokens to the perfection of six things. This is a wait that spans nine centuries, a counterattack of mortal will against heaven.
The context is endless, you and I are endless.
Three hundred years ago, they carved their names on the side of the broken bridge and were pierced by arrows; three hundred years later, in the war-torn city of Hangzhou, they met again on and off the stage. This time, is it love and hate in the play, or life and death outside the play?
