Rain Falls on Old Traces

The continuous spring rain in Shanghai awakened Lin Yan's forgotten memories for ten years. In the studio, an old knitted cardigan with Su Wan stitches on the cuffs and a sketch of a stone bridge with an empty deck all tell his obsession with the old man. In the old alleys of Hangzhou in 2016, the young two embraced each other in the smoke. Su Wan drew magnolia flowers in his sketchbook, and he ran all over the streets to buy sweet-scented osmanthus cakes for her, thinking that his love could withstand the passage of time. But on the eve of graduation, something unexpected happened to the Su family, and Su Wan was forced to go to New York. A farewell cut off all ties, leaving Lin Yan alone to watch the time. In the past ten years, every rainy day has become an opportunity for him to reminisce. In his dreams, he longed for his old love, but when he woke up, it was only the coldest night. An encounter at an old pier brought Su Wan, who had disappeared for many years, back into his life. The reunion at the art exhibition further revealed their current situation - she was a mother, and he was still alone. From the old alleys of Hangzhou to the Shanghai Pier, from the sweetness of the sweet-scented osmanthus cake to the bitterness after parting, images such as rain, magnolia flowers, and old clothes connect the past and present of the two people. They once looked at each other across the mountains and seas and through the years, struggled with regrets, and finally learned to relax in the precipitation of time. Just like the melancholy in Li Yu's poem "Flowing water and falling flowers, spring is gone", they finally accepted the separation and change, reconciled with the past in their own time, and returned to their respective peace in "heaven and earth".