"No Return" is based on "Beifeng·Drumming" and outlines the tragic fate of a small person in troubled times. In the 19th year of Wei Linggong, Zhou Xu committed regicide, and a military conscription order tore apart the protagonist's ordinary life. The newlywed wife Liao Luo held her newborn daughter in her arms and begged the military officials to put him into the supply camp with an unhealed arrow wound. In exchange, his money bag was knocked down and his dignity was trampled on. The protagonist rose up to resist, wounded a soldier and was taken to the battlefield, embarking on a road of no return.
On the bloody battlefield, the protagonist witnessed the tragic death of his fellow villager Ji Qi on the ladder, and found the Yujue in his arms that "the relationship between life and death is broad, and the relationship between children and children", and witnessed the war's ruthless destruction of countless beautiful loves and lives. On a rainy night, the protagonist escapes on a white horse and accidentally finds a silk letter stating that Zhou Xu has been executed and the general is a collaborator with the enemy. In order to return home, he resolutely kills the treasonous general.
However, when he returned to the capital after a narrow escape, what awaited him was Wang Ling who said "anyone who deserts from the southern expedition will be regarded as treason". The city gate was opened and thousands of arrows pierced his heart. He finally fell on the scorched earth and found in despair that his wife had already jumped into the well and committed suicide with her child in her arms. Amidst the sound of war drums, new killings will begin again, and countless ordinary people like him will forever be submerged under the rolling wheels of history, leaving only endless sorrow and helplessness.
Intention: The insignificance and sadness of individual destiny under war and power changes, the beauty of human nature and its persistence in the light and disappearance of dark reality