In the summer of 1996, young Lin Shen moved back to the small county town from the provincial capital Zhengzhou with his parents. In Chenji Tofu Factory, which is filled with the fragrance of beans, he met Chen Jianhua, who was grinding and humming. In this slow-paced world surrounded by the shade of locust trees and the chirping of cicadas, two teenagers with very different backgrounds formed a simple but close bond through tofu, letters and the open-air stage of the county theater.
From the opera competition in Zhengzhou together, to the stove fire performance at the end of the year, from the letters sent between the small town and the county, to the confession by the Yellow River at the turn of the millennium... Everything seems to be peaceful and peaceful. However, the heavy expectations of traditional families and the unshakable concepts of small towns are like invisible waves, impacting the world they carefully built time and time again. In 2005, after a fierce family storm, the desperate Chen Jianhua put an eternal end to their unconventional love in a decisive way by the Yellow River.
From then on, Lin Shen continued to move forward with the pain that could not be healed and the unfinished life of his lover. He became a doctor and experienced earthquake rescue, SARS and COVID-19 fights. While saving the lives of others, he completed a long journey of self-salvation. Time passes to 2026, and middle-aged Lin Shen once again returns to his hometown where things are different and people are different. In the still muddy sound of the Yellow River, he finally reached reconciliation with the past, regrets, and the "addiction to love" that lasted his entire life. The core of this article is to question the shape of love, the weight of memory, and how a person continues to walk in time with permanent loss.
Purpose: The core of this article is to question the shape of love, the weight of memory, and how a person can continue to walk in time with permanent loss.