Shi Jinchu, a Chinese teacher at Qingwu Primary School in Nanning City, was forced to tutor her nephew at home during the summer vacation. She was furious because of "De Di De" when the sound of electric drills and hammers suddenly came from upstairs, causing the pen in her lesson plan to scratch the paper.
Wearing a chicken coop on her head and pajamas with "Unicorn" printed on them, she rushed upstairs with murderous intent and knocked on the door for three minutes. The door opened, revealing a thin man wearing a mask, with dark blue eyes from staying up late.
She thought the man looked familiar, but she was too angry to look into it. Until I was complaining to my best friend Zeng Fuzhao in the evening, and the other party sent me a high school graduation photo - the taciturn and a little fat boy Yu Zhiqi who sat in the last row of the classroom was the same person as the person who opened the door today.
Yu Zhiqi, a well-known screenwriter in Beiyan, was stuck in a creative bottleneck and fled back to his hometown of Nanning to find inspiration. He didn't expect that Shi Jinchu, who ranked first in the overall exam in high school, would now become the fierce Chinese teacher downstairs.
He never expected that inspiration would quietly sprout from the back of her slamming the door out.
During a summer vacation, two people who were temporarily stopped on their respective tracks bumped into each other upstairs and downstairs. He observed how well she taught her nephew, and she complained to him about the trivialities of life. The lifeless character in his script began to have the side profile of her biting the penholder and the tips of her hair that were slightly raised when she was teaching people.
Knowing that her biggest wish was to see the aurora with her own eyes, Yu Zhiqi decided to go to the 70th North Latitude to collect the scenery. He said he was looking for inspiration for the script, but he wrote letter after letter under the aurora and sent them back to Nan Ning. In the letter are the white fox footprints on the ice field, the purple skylight at three o'clock in the morning, and the throbbing hidden between the lines.
When the filming of the movie started, the two were in a long-distance relationship across an entire continent of Eurasia. He was rewriting scripts in Europe, and she was taking classes in Nanning. When the movie was finished, he came back to her with a pile of unsent letters and said softly: "I have walked through those places for you, and now - I will take you to see it with your own eyes."
From the "noise dispute" upstairs and downstairs, to the end of the Aurora at 70 degrees north latitude. The best story turns out to have been written on the first day of reunion.
Intention: To meet again in trivial daily life, and use words and distance to light up each other's dim tracks. The so-called romance is not about pursuing across mountains and seas, but about someone willing to write a letter about the mountains and seas for you, and then take you there in person.