In the midsummer of 1998 in Nancheng, cicadas were noisily chirping in the old alley chess club. The introverted and lonely seventeen-year-old Shen Zhiyu met the dazzling and flamboyant young Lu Zeyan in a dead game.
He is a Go genius that everyone knows. He leaned down gently to help him solve the game. He gave him a warm white chess piece and promised to accompany him all the years.
Playing chess under the locust tree, chatting in the evening breeze, and returning home side by side late at night, the two teenagers hid the secret and turbulent heartbeats in their hearts. In the name of confidants, they stayed together tenderly, determined to be together forever when they were young.
But life is like chess, you have no regrets when you make a move, and your destiny has already been secretly arranged.
In the third year of high school, the Lu family suddenly encountered changes. The Lu family was in debt and the family fortune was in ruins. In order to protect him for the rest of his life, Lu Zeyan endured all kinds of reluctance and chose to leave without saying goodbye. He cut off all ties with a piece of paper saying "we are well together" and went to a foreign country alone, bearing all the hardships.
Ten years apart, the north and the south are ups and downs.
Shen Zhiyu seals the chess piece and seals his heart, remaining indifferent for half his life, hiding his obsession and love in a white chess piece, and living alone; Lu Zeyan wanders around, goes through all the hardships, survives the vicissitudes of life, and always thinks of only one person in his heart.
At a business reception, two people who had been separated for ten years suddenly reunited.
Old misunderstandings are solved layer by layer, and the love that has been tolerated in both directions is revealed to the world. I thought that time could make up for it and regrets could be healed, but the shackles of fate came again. The shackles of an old marriage contract were entangled, and a huge gulf in reality lay before my eyes.
They survived ten years of separation, but they couldn't escape the fateful ending.
In the end, the chess game ended, and mountains and rivers separated us.
He retired to the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River and spent the rest of his life alone; he clung to the old alleys of Nancheng, playing chess and keeping memories.
It was a good match when we first met when we were young, but it turned out to be a mistake after many years.
A game of Othello, half a business is difficult to settle.
Year after year, the sound of Huaixia chess remained the same, but they could never meet again in the midsummer of that year.
Intention: youth