Spring of 2021, Wuhan. Shen Yu, a junior in college, linked up with He Chuan, a freshman in college, on social media. Eight days of texting, two days of meeting, the sound of waves by the East Lake, the smell of rice in the rental house in the village in the city, the dusk after holding hands on the Yangtze River Bridge - the two boys came together like this.
They squeezed in the six-square-meter kitchen to cook, sang along to rock music in the livehouse, and agreed under the cherry blossom tree not to get married or have children in their lives, but only to have each other. Each person had a rosewood Xiangyun keychain and a silver ring on the same hand. They thought they could go on forever.
Later, Shen Yu graduated and went south to work as a counselor, and He Chuanbaoyan graduated and went to Xinjiang. The distance of three thousand kilometers gradually lengthened their relationship. In the fall of 2024, Shen Yu was diagnosed with mid-to-late stage gastric adenocarcinoma. He refused surgery and chemotherapy, and refused to let He Chuan know. That winter, he pushed the person he loved most away with the words "Let's break up" and endured the pain and depression alone.
In the spring of 2027, Shen Yu resigned and set off on his motorcycle. He revisited Wuhan, heading west, crossing Qinghai Lake, Hoh Xil, and Mount Everest, and finally stopped forever at the K420 section of the Xinjiang-Tibet Line at the age of twenty-seven.
And He Chuan is working hard, taking pictures and living a good life in Xinjiang. He knows nothing. Until that autumn when he passed by K420 on a business trip, he got out of the car and took a photo of the snow-capped mountains. The Xiangyun keychain in his pocket was gently swayed by the wind.
He didn't know that he had just passed the end of his lover's journey.
Concept: Motorcycling has been Shen Yu's dream since he was a child, and it is also his way of facing death. He refused to be exhausted by chemotherapy in the hospital bed, and chose to ride a motorcycle and use his last life to measure the earth. Rock music, roads, snowy mountains, starry sky - these images constitute his answer to fate: You can take away my life, but you cannot take away my right to choose how to die. He died on the road, in the wind, in the direction closest to Hechuan. This was the most dignified ending he could give himself.