Drum Tower Haze

In a second-hand bookstore on Hubu Street in Nanjing, Chen Yan accidentally found a copy of "Jinling Stories" with a yellowed letter. The promise in the letter to "bring a piece of plum blossom cake when we meet on the stone steps of the Drum Tower" unexpectedly coincided with the last wish of her grandmother who "had been waiting for thirty years" before she died. Following the clues on the letter, he met Lin Xiaotang in the snowy Drum Tower who was also here for his ancestors. They held similar old notebooks, magnolia pendants with names engraved on them, and iron boxes half buried in the snow. They gradually pieced together the regrets of thirty years ago: Chen Yan's grandfather, Chen Jingming, died on the way to Lin Xiaotang's grandmother Lin's late autumn and winter solstice appointment, leaving an unfinished meeting. The story uses Nanjing's Drum Tower, Qinhuai River, Laomendong and other regional symbols as the background, connecting the emotional bonds between the two generations. Chen Yan and Lin Xiaotang not only have to make up for their ancestors' agreement thirty years late, but also unravel the details hidden in the old letters in the iron box. In the fireworks and traces of time in the city, they can reconcile the love and regret that spanned time, and also let the warm memories of Nanjing flow slowly in the snow and lights.