"He cherished three things most in his life: prescriptions, human lives, and the name he never dared to say."
In a war-torn era, Cheng Xiao, a rebellious young officer of the Cheng family, and Mu Xi, a doctor who helped the world by hanging a pot, had a brief encounter under the pear tree when they were young. After years of separation, when we met again in the smoke of gunfire, he was a decisive and iron-blooded officer, and he was a doctor fighting death in a field hospital.
Cheng Xiao remembered the cinnabar mole at the end of Mu Xi's left eye, and his trembling fingers when suturing the wound, but he did not dare to admit that the pocket watch he had hidden close to his body for fifteen years contained the man's hair that fell when he was a teenager.
Mu Xi recognized the crescent scar on Cheng Xiao's collarbone and the pear blossoms he always carved on the bottom of the medicine boxes he delivered, but she pretended not to understand the burning affection in his eyes.
One of them cherishes words like life, the other cherishes words like gold.
Until the dawn of that battle, Mu Xi's white coat was soaked in blood, and his pocket watch had always stopped at 8:17; until Cheng Xiao lived to be ninety-four years old, there was still the unfinished prescription paper pressed under his pillow, with the pear tree traced in pencil on the back, and the two villains who had never been able to stand side by side.
"If we meet again, I'll say I love you first."
"It's a pity that the pear blossoms bloom year after year, and there is no one waiting under the tree."
Purpose: Unfinished love in troubled times is more eternal than death