Go into the Wind

Chen Tingyue and Yu Yicheng, two thirty-five-year-old unmarried women, are going through the most fragmented stage in their lives. They met in the high school classroom at the age of seventeen. They were once the most dazzling presence in each other's youth - Chen Tingyue was the only girl in the science class who could solve the final question, and Yu Yicheng once made history with perfect scores in essays in the liberal arts class. They once lied on the playground and vowed to "always be chasing the wind", but after the college entrance examination, one went north to study finance, and the other went south to study design, and were pushed to different cities by the trajectory of fate. Fifteen years later, one of them became an actuary who is good at calculating risks, and the other worked in an advertising agency repeating the daily routine of revising drafts until the early morning. Until one rainy night when he was working overtime, while Chen Tingyue was calculating the 107th risk assessment form, he suddenly received a message from Yu Yicheng: "Do you still remember the agreement back then?" Above this message was a record of the trip that the two had agreed to travel three years ago but had nothing to do with it. The needle of fate began to turn at this time, and they all gave up their current stable jobs. One booked a ticket to the northwest without telling his family, and the other dug out the dusty hiking bag. When they met at a convenience store late at night, they found that the other's bag contained souvenirs given to each other in high school: Chen Tingyue brought the San Mao poems handwritten by Yu Yicheng, and Yu Yicheng kept the compass given by Chen Tingyue. This is not a common "midlife crisis", but about how two women tear off the "unmarried" label and complete their second coming-of-age ceremony in the presence of each other. Just like the secret they discovered when they reunited - Yu Yicheng's poems have not been finished for fifteen years, and Chen Tingyue's compass still points to true north.