Magnolia on Gears

Using a pocket watch as a time and space anchor, family memories from 1937 to 2073 are connected in series. The magnolia petals that Shen Yan hid in the cracks of the bricks, the tapes that Lin Peilan buried in the soil, and the hot gears in Lin Xia's palms were all intertwined into the lines of blood in the clenching sound of the time machine. Magnolias bloom year after year, and gears carry unfinished letters among ruins and cemeteries. When the last gear is left blank for the future, the "we are" carried in the wind has long transcended life and death - it is an agreement engraved in scars, and an eternal grammar that makes every spring a reunion.