"Ask the canal how clear it is, so that there is a source of living water."
Their names are taken from the same poem. Their fate was crushed in half in troubled times.
Five years ago, he was her husband who she had written a letter of divorce from.
Five years later, she became someone else's fourth concubine.
On the winter night when they reunited in Shashi, she walked out from behind the curtain holding a wine bottle, wearing plain clothes, her eyebrows lowered, and she didn't look at anyone the whole time.
While he was sitting at the table, he had only one thought in his mind -
She is still alive.
He once thought that what he owed her the most in his life was the divorce note.
Later, I realized that what she really owed was five years, a truth, and a troubled world that she had to endure alone.
The mountains and rivers are about to collapse, some people are playing chess, and some are paying off debts.
He had pushed her out of his own world, and now he wanted to pull her back.
For nothing else.
Only this time, he didn't want to miss her again.
When he went upstream along the Yangtze River and caught up with her amid gunfire——
Only then did they discover that fate had already laid a foreshadowing in the first line of the poem:
Only when the canal enters the Qing River can this be achieved.
Intention: True feelings in troubled times.