In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, when Shanghai was thick with mist and rain, she met him at a surprise banquet.
He is a high-spirited young officer, and she is a gentle and scholarly lady who knows etiquette. He promised her to enjoy the fireworks together after the mountains and rivers settled down, and she waited for him to take off his armor and return home, holding hands for the rest of his life.
But in troubled times, it is difficult to balance the righteousness of family and country with the love of children. A war, a separation, he went to the front line, never to return; she guarded the old house, waiting for the years to come.
Later, Shanghai was still prosperous, with bright lights and bustling traffic, but there was no longer that young man who could hold an umbrella for her.
A farewell, a half-life of waiting, after all, we will never see each other again, and no old friends will return home.
Intention: Love once is eternal, no need to see each other again
Even if we never see each other again in this life, the time that illuminated each other in the turbulent years is still the brightest light in life. Love has never disappeared, it just remains in another way in the past that can no longer be reached.