Most relationships in this world end in regret.
Li Fengmian carries the injustice of her late father's case. She once encountered a fleeting dream in the martial world, but refuses to stake the rest of her life on an ethereal vow.
Su Wanzhao honors the promise she made to her youthful love, bids farewell to the people she once knew in the northern frontier, and devotes all her talent and ingenuity to crafting ingenious mechanisms.
No one offers me romance, so I choose to be kind to others. No one favors me, so I cherish those who understand me.
A sudden downpour at a temple uncovers a hidden bond forged six years earlier, in a desperate snowbound night.
They need not travel hand in hand or save one another. Though separated by a thousand mountains, they can share their feelings through letters.
Though the world shifts and scars cover their bodies, they carry two broken pasts and walk two solitary roads through life. A woman's greatest fulfillment has always been to forge her own strength and become her own harbor. Gazing at each other from afar, they are each other's clear light.
Theme: Every meeting and parting, joy and sorrow in this world, is a matter of circumstance. Love and encounters are only passersby in life. We need not wait for others to make us whole, nor must we stay by someone's side to find fulfillment. Though burdened by old wounds and disappointed hopes, we can still make a home for ourselves in our own worlds. Kindred spirits need not be together day and night; it is enough for their souls to answer one another across the distance. Rise above the bonds of romance and society's definitions of a woman's destiny. Face the shifting world beyond, seek peace within, and find your own way through life with an open heart.
