Jiang Ningyin is a carefully carved jade object from the old era. It is gentle, quiet, and carries all the disciplines of purdah. A marriage contract sent her to the Fu family.
Her husband Fu Jianming was an anomaly of that era. What he brings is not discipline, but inquiry.
He opened the study window and let the wind flow into the stagnant room.
"Did you hear it?" He asked, "that's the sound of the wheels of time rolling."
He taught her to read the news in newspapers and took her to listen to debates in distant schools. When the family regarded her as "misguided" and put heavy pressure on her, he stood in front of her and blocked all accusations.
When the old order disintegrated in the tide, he stretched out his hand to her in the dim light of the morning.
——They buried an era with their own hands, just to see the real dawn in each other's eyes.
Intention: Personal destiny collides with the current of the times, giving birth to the sprout of a new soul on the ruins of the old world.
