In a smoke-filled field hospital, the lives of female soldier Gu Wanqiu and the cold-faced but conscientious military doctor Shen Shuyi were quietly intertwined because of a blood-stained magnolia and a tight grip on the edge of life and death. After the war ended, the two people who were supposed to go their separate ways met again under the eaves of a narrow alley in Shanghai under the wave of the times. From guarding to testing, from clumsy hugs to the unexpected first kiss on a rainy night, they carefully build a relationship that cannot be tolerated in the world in a secret corner.
However, the turbulent years that swept everything will eventually blow the storm towards their cozy little nest. The charges of criticism, house confiscation, and humiliation tore the two apart. They were separated from each other and no contact was heard from them. Shen Shuyi practiced medicine in the countryside of northern Jiangsu, and Gu Wanqiu worked hard on a farm in the northwest. What supports them is only deep-rooted longing, unyielding hatred, and a vague but persistent belief in reunion - hidden in the crevices of medicine boxes or pockets, the "gauze white magnolia" that has long faded and deformed, but symbolizes the first and final bond.
After nine long years of watching like a lonely grave, the notice of redress pierced the darkness like a glimmer of light. At the entrance of the alley, the two people, whose faces have been crushed by time and whose backs have been bent, finally meet each other. No words needed, a hug with all my strength carried more than 3,000 days and nights of suffering and the ecstasy of recovery. For the rest of their lives, they supported each other in peace and settled their scars into rings of life. Finally, on a warm afternoon in autumn, they returned to the place where it all started, and quietly hid the cloth flowers, which had carried half a lifetime of blood, tears and affection, into the ancient hole of the old magnolia tree.
A "blood orchid" that was born in the smoke of gunfire, withered in the storm, and finally returned to the earth and was sealed by time, witnessed the love between Shen Shuyi and Gu Wanqiu that spanned life, death and time - they proved with their lives that some flowers never fade deep in their souls.
Purpose: 1. Humanity over doctrine: military doctors rescue prisoners of war, use medical skills to break the deadlock of political stances, and prove that the value of life transcends camps 2. The era of true love confrontation From the first kiss on a rainy night to the nine-year separation, they use their bodies as each other's human shields to keep the emotional fire in the political storm 3. Injury The traces became the love letters and blood-stained gauze flowers that were confiscated in history books, and were finally buried in the tree hole where they first met. Private memories became evidence against the erasure of history. 4. The ultimate form of dignity. When they hunched over and embraced each other in the alley, all the destroyed youth and pride were reborn in the clasped hands.