The wind passing through the valley will leave an echo.
Loving someone will leave a lifelong mark.
At the age of seventeen, I met Ren Zhiyu.
She is the only light in my dark youth.
Our hearts fluttered in the chirping of cicadas, embraced each other in the cold wind, and kissed goodbye on the embankment.
Then, they disappeared from each other's lives for twenty-four years.
When we met again, she was a gentle university professor and I was a businessman full of fireworks.
We sat across a dining table and laughed and said we hadn't seen each other for a long time.
But only I know, the photo sticker in my wallet, the pearl hairpin on her window sill,
Never let go.
It's just some love that was lost to reality when I was young,
After middle age, I still lost to reality.
From then on, the sound of the wind remained the same, and the years moved forward.
The love hidden in youth leaves only a long echo,
Dissipated in the fleeting time.
Purpose: To tell the story of a same-sex first love spanning twenty-four years, to show how worldly discipline, identity shackles and illness can push two lovers to completely different life trajectories, and to explore the eternal opposition between love and regret, freedom and restraint, passion and silence, as well as the helplessness and reconciliation of adults facing fate and the past.