In his seventh year of guarding the Northeast Frontier, she won the design award in Paris. When a reporter asked about her relationship status, she told the camera, "My husband is a soldier."
That night he showed up in her hotel room wearing training clothes, covered in wind and snow, and his eyes were red. She touched the bandage on his lower back, and the blood had dried to brown. He lowered his head and kissed her: "Don't cry, it doesn't hurt. I just... Want to see you so much."
Eight thousand kilometers of snowy road, seven hours time difference, seven years in a different place. Shangguan Che and Yu Chiqing, from the high school playground to the northeastern border defense, from the Seine River in Paris to the return date brand in Beijing. Every night when he was cleaning his gun and standing guard on the border, every morning when she was drawing satellite orbit maps in the library in Paris. Everyone said that military love was too painful, but the sound of him calling her "Cheche" every time the video came through was enough for her to survive the whole winter.
Later, her communication tower covered every corner of his station. Her brand is called "Return Date", and his promises are letters sent from the northeastern wind and snow. On the day he was transferred back to Beijing, he held her around three times: "Cheche, from now on, your return date will be my return date."
Clear. Him and her. Seven thousand kilometers of wind and snow, seven years in different places, running in both directions, never wavering.
Purpose: He guards the national border, and she guards the time difference line. He stood sentry in the northeastern wind and snow, and she drew pictures in the morning light of Paris. He was cleaning his gun at the border, and she was tracing signals on the satellite orbit map. Both of them are very strong, and neither one is the subordinate of the other. Every meeting is a rush, every separation is paving the way for reunion.