Early Summer's First Cool Night, a Dream of Barren Years

"I've walked roads in many places, crossed bridges in many places, watched the clouds countless times, and drunk all kinds of wine, yet I've loved only one person, at the very best age of their life."

In Republican-era China, foreign powers ravaged the country and people struggled to survive. She was pure and innocent, clever and bright, the beloved granddaughter of a wealthy southern businesswoman. He was inexperienced, commanding and overbearing, yet gentle and carefree, the only son of a wealthy family. Bound together by a shared goal, they fell in love for a lifetime and swore to remain together beneath a white orchid tree. This was a cruel, desperate struggle. They were separated, reunited, watched each other across a river, and joined forces. For their beliefs, they sacrificed their lovers, their family, and their own lives. Conflicts, entanglements, hands that could not let go. It was an age of great sorrow and joy, an age where heaven and hell coexisted, an age where meetings and partings were born and destroyed together... A love story from Republican-era China, a little white orchid in the memory of a time bathed in blood and fire.