"The Day I Secretly Love You" is a civilian epic that spans sixty years. It tells the long journey of an ordinary person, Lu Chuan, guarding a glimmer of light in the double cage of the times and himself.
Ten-year-old Lu Chuan wrote the "hope" that no one saw in a home filled with smoke, alcohol and quarrels. In 1994, he met Lin Wan under the ginkgo tree, and this light lit up his gloomy youth. However, the class gap has already determined the destiny. He entered society with his original trauma, and repeatedly encountered obstacles in the workplace and interpersonal relationships. He collects postcards of all cities with ginkgo trees, recording a parallel life that never intersects.
This is not a story about acquisition, but about "failure": the love that cannot be expressed, the gap that cannot be bridged, and the origin that cannot be escaped. When life comes to an end, those postcards that have never been sent finally receive a late reply.
It turns out that the deepest secret love is a lifelong silent negotiation between a person and his destiny. Among all the "can'ts" and "shouldn'ts", he reserved the last piece of "maybe" for himself.
Intention: Ordinary people protect the possibility of love in silence