They were two souls gilded by the times and sealed by the years.
Fu Xin has the most perfect "destination" in the eyes of the world: a gentle wife, a well-behaved son, and a body that has been polished smooth and hollow in Vanity Fair.
It wasn't until the grand banquet on his fortieth birthday that the name that had disappeared for ten years - Jing Ran, filled with paranoia and coldness, tore his world apart again.
From the confrontation in the clouds of the Shanghai Tower to the crazy escape in the extremely cold place of 53 degrees north latitude; from the soul game under the shackles of reality to the self-drowning carnival in the fictional other shore. They tried to spend the rest of their lives paying homage to the old teenage dream that had been cut short, but found that when they abandoned the entire world, the vultures of reality had been waiting at the mouth of the abyss for a long time.
This is a confession of reunion, destruction and final silence.
"We finally killed each other at the age of forty, and then each lived as the other's tombstone."
Purpose: To explore the fragmentation and eternity of idealism in the face of mediocre reality. By describing the extreme conflict between two middle-aged people between social identity and true emotions, it shows the powerlessness of individuals in the face of the tragedy of fate, as well as the pathological longing for pure emotion and ultimate redemption deep in human nature, even in desperate situations.