Meng Nuogui is an orphan who was exiled by his original family.
When he was twenty years old, he escaped from the cold wealthy family in Han and went to Tibet. However, at the foot of Mount Kailash and by Lake Manasarovar, he fainted in the uninhabited grassland due to severe high fever.
The person who rescued him was a young man named Qi Lansheng.
He is half Tibetan and half Han. Qi Lansheng is the Han name given by his adoptive mother, and his real name is Tianqiong. He grew up in the snowy land, but he speaks Chinese fluently and gently. He is taciturn, but as thoughtful as dust.
There are no complicated rituals, just a warm stove, scalding butter tea, the warmth of the campfire and the light smoke from cypress branches.
Qi Lansheng gently pulled him back from the edge of life and death in the most simple and stable way in the snowy land.
Two lonely souls who were also exiled by fate, silently approached each other in the morning and dusk on the grassland and hunted for prayer flags, trying to save each other.
But the floating world is never left to its own devices.
Meng Nuogui was forcibly taken back by his family, leaving only one parting sentence:
"I will definitely come back."
Qi Lansheng guarded the black yak tent from spring snow to autumn frost, from boyhood to white head.
But Meng Nuogui was trapped in the whirlpool of fame and fortune in Han Dynasty, and he became ill with longing. Finally, he desperately set out on his return journey, but crashed in the clouds and never returned to the grassland he had promised.
The wind in Tibet still blows, and the prayer flags still move.
But the person who said he would come back remains in heaven forever.
Once a promise comes true, you will wait for the rest of your life.
Purpose: to explore loneliness and redemption under the trauma of the original family, to praise pure love across regions and identities, to show the fateful tragedy of "promise and waiting" in the Tibetan context, to express deep empathy for regrets and obsessions, and to convey the emotional core of "some encounters are short-lived, but they are enough to illuminate a lifetime."