After five years apart, a long-overdue reconciliation brought Shen Zhiwei and Jiang Yan face to face again.
When they were young, they were impulsive and passionate, loving each other without reservation. Yet misunderstandings, stubbornness, pride, and outside interference tore them apart. That summer ended in a rush, and the plea to stay that neither of them managed to say became their deepest regret. In the years that followed, each weathered life's ups and downs alone. As they moved through a sea of people, they carried their wounds forward, hiding their deep love in silence and entrusting their thoughts to the evening breeze.
After they met again, all their misunderstandings were cleared up. At last, they let go of their stubbornness and chose to love each other again. But a rekindled romance is never the end of the story. The cracks remain, and the pain has yet to fade.
Jiang Yan returned no longer the arrogant boy he had been, but a reserved, steady man with nothing but restrained tenderness in his eyes. He had once failed to cherish her and struggled to express himself. Now he would spend the rest of his life clumsily making up for what he had done, doing everything in his power to protect Shen Zhiwei, whom he had lost and found again. He learned to lower his head, to compromise, and to express his love openly, all so he would never repeat the mistake that had cost them each other.
After years of wandering and growing, Shen Zhiwei was no longer the young girl who had once rushed to him, full of passion and ready to risk everything. She was gentle and restrained, sensitive by nature, with years of loneliness and unease still lingering in her heart. Even given another chance, she still dared not entrust him with her whole heart. The wounds of the past remained vivid, leaving her torn between love and fear.
Old troubles had not completely settled, and family opposition, entanglements with others, and regrets from their youth came one after another, repeatedly testing their hard-won reunion.
Some say the past should fade with the wind, love and hate erased, and everyone should go their separate ways in peace.
But for Jiang Yan and Shen Zhiwei, the past may blow away, but their love has not cooled.
This time, they crossed the distance of years, soothed each other's wounds, and shed their youthful impulsiveness, learning to accept and stay by each other's side. They would no longer be trapped by youthful pride or let regret write the rest of their lives.
The wind carries away the old years; love fills the years to come.
All the time they lost will finally be made up, year after year, in the days ahead.
Theme: Modern redemption
