When he was sixteen, he got into the quagmire for her, so he deliberately pushed her away. He would rather let her hate him than let her sink with him.
When they met again eight years later, she was kneeling on the ground and was being bullied. He stood up for her and pushed all those people back into the mud.
His yard, the name he gave her, the place where he had been waiting for her for eight years. Tangli is both his deep love and the answer to the whole story - he has everything except her. Miantang, wait for her to come back and sleep.
Shen Yan waited for eight years, planted a jujube tree, hung a plaque and cut a hairpin. He didn't know she would come back, or even if she was alive. But he did.
Tangli ran away for eight years, wearing a pair of silver bracelets, being chased for debts, pushed down, bruised on the forehead, and slept on a hard bed in a strange town. She didn't know where he was or if he had someone else. But she didn't pawn the bracelet.
Neither of them knew if it was worth it, but they both did it.
Intention: Waiting and reunion, time cannot erase sincerity