Butterfly on the Ruins

A contemporary spiritual epic about ruins and flight A butterfly landed on the ruins. Its wings were still intact, but it had forgotten how to fly. This is what Lu Chenzhou, a great writer who became famous but fell into mental despair, asked himself at the peak of his life. In the spring of the year Bingzi, Lu Chenzhou went to Beijing to receive the country's highest literary award, but suddenly lost his voice on the highly anticipated awards stage. At that moment, the spotlight illuminated the trophy and his emptiness. After returning to Xi'an, he found that his marriage, friendship, creation and even the entire spiritual world were rapidly collapsing. He met Liu Hanyan, a young woman who eloped from Tongguan. The passion between the two was like a fire, burning away his last peace and igniting his way to the abyss. At the same time, the fates of the four major celebrities in Xi'an are also in violent shock - the painter Tao Ran is addicted to drugs and is involved in fake paintings, the antiques dealer Cheng Mo maintains a hypocritical mask with imitations and informants, and the famous Qin opera actor Yu Zhensheng sings to the air on an empty stage. A reputation lawsuit caused by an old love dragged everyone into the whirlpool. This is a ruined city. Under the city walls of the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, there are piles of fragments of dreams and ashes of desires. But there are still people on the ruins - some are painting, some are singing, some are writing, some are collecting rags, and some are trying to grasp the last straw in despair. The butterfly's wings are broken, but it is still flapping.