Good news:
The eldest lady of the Zhou family in Suzhou City finally found someone who could cure her heart disease.
Bad news:
That person was a woman, a Western medicine doctor who had returned from studying abroad. She was an "outsider who would fly away sooner or later" in her mother's words.
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Good news:
Her fiancé comes from a prominent family, and once she gets married, she will be well-off, well-educated, and have a stable life.
Bad news:
The way he looked at her was no different from looking at a piece of porcelain from a famous kiln - precious, but it didn't have to have a sound.
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Good news:
Cheng Juefei said, your tears will turn into salt, and we can use it to pave a road.
Bad news:
This road is called "going to Shanghai for medical treatment" - in the name of illness, in reality, escape, success will lead to survival, failure will lead to eternal disaster.
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So——
She hid the pen in the secret compartment, pressed the portrait into the crack of the wall, soaked the wedding letter with tears, dried it, smoothed it, and put it away at the bottom of the box.
Then on the day when the thunder of Jingzhe rang, in the morning fog at the dock, for the first time, I boarded a ship that was going nowhere.
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Many years later, someone asked her: Ms. Zhou, how dare you do that?
She didn't answer.
Outside the window, Dr. Cheng is teaching the children to bandage their wounds.
The sunlight fell on those hands, exactly the same as when he held her many years ago.
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Purpose: Awakening the independent soul amidst the heavy constraints of the old world; amidst the turbulent torrent of the new era, uniting with the same heart and understanding of each other. It depicts how two women used courage and wisdom to break free from the shackles of the times and their families, support each other and grow together in the turbulent years, and finally realize their self-worth and protect their true emotions, showing the resilience and spiritual awakening of women at a turning point in history.