Love in the Blinding Snow

Road-trip story / a touch of magical realism

“Back then, you didn't yet understand that love is a tree ring growing backward.”

In 2018, Qiu Yining and Pei Qingji fall in love.

But Pei Qingji mysteriously disappears before their wedding, leaving behind only a note. It tells Qiu Yining to go to the Altun Mountains in 2021 to collect someone's body, and says she will find the answers to all her questions there..

When she goes to the Altun Mountains to collect “someone's” body, she runs into Pei Qingji, who disappeared three years earlier.

But the Pei Qingji she meets now doesn't know her at all.

When Qiu Yining asks why he came to the Altun Mountains, he says he wants to die there.

She doesn't want him to die, so she clings to him every day to keep him from taking his own life.

But in the end, he dies anyway.

After collecting his body, Qiu Yining leaves the Altun Mountains.

After his death, Pei Qingji arrives in 2018.

A journey of exile for two outsiders.

Theme: Protecting nature is everyone's responsibility