In the summer of 2003, on an afternoon when cicadas were chirping noisily, Wen Ersheng and Xiang Yangyang clutched their admission notices from universities in other places, huddled in a smoky old Internet cafe, and typed an agreement on the mottled keyboard with their fingertips - four years later, they would never separate again. He is a young man with his own light, bright and cheerful, with magnanimity between his features; she is a girl hiding in the corner, sensitive and inferior, with uneasiness and lack of love wrapped in her eyes. Four years apart, the long-distance calls in the middle of the night until the phone became hot, the handwritten letters accumulated in an iron box, and the sight of him running towards her wrapped in the cold wind on the crowded green train during the Spring Festival were all footnotes of their hottest love. But when the graduation bell rang, Wen Ersheng's notice to study abroad was caught off guard and shattered all his expectations. He said with red eyes, "Wait for me for three years," but in endless uneasiness and fear, she gritted her teeth and said breakup, blocking all contact information. From then on, the two became the regrets of each other's youth. Twenty years later, Wen Ersheng became an executive of a listed company. He lost his youth and became calm and restrained, but he was still single. He returned across the mountains and seas just to find her. Xiang Yangyang, on the other hand, married an ordinary and dull man, and was trapped in the shortage of food, rice, oil and salt. The timidity and exhaustion in his face had long covered his youthfulness. At the moment of reunion, love and regret surged into the tide. He tried his best to make amends, but she gradually woke up amidst the struggle and tug - those young affections and pains must finally be reconciled with herself. She does not want to be anyone's vassal, does not cling to anyone's glory, she just wants to break free from the shackles of life and live step by step to be what she wants most.
Purpose: Based on the youth trajectory and era mark of the post-80s to 85s generation, it connects the half-life entanglements of love and regret, miss and reconciliation, and deeply explores women's self-awakening in emotions and mediocre life. It conveys the core of "true healing is never about relying on the light of others, but about reconciling with the past, getting along with oneself tenderly, and ultimately achieving oneself", and pays tribute to every ordinary person who struggles in life, grows up with regrets, and finally lives his or her own life.