The confrontation of consciousness ignites the love of the soul. However, their union is a fundamental collision of two ways of transforming the world: the "poet's soul" desires feeling and care, and the "monarch's hand" pursues control and construction. From the survival of a used bookstore, to the bloody cross-border merger, to the battle between a city's memory and future, their love fell apart under the huge gap in values and evolved into an open game that lasted half their lives. They become each other's most familiar enemies and most distant gazers. Decades later, at the end of his life, a final "soul reckoning" reveals all the motives and scars. This is a grand epic that records how two extreme souls fall in love, break up, and struggle with each other under the changing times, and finally use each other as a mirror to complete the closed loop of their own lives.
Purpose: To explore the two forces of idealism and pragmatism that transform the world in the tide of the times, their eternal conflict, attraction and coexistence, as well as the struggle of human nature between power and belief.