The Dragon and the Bell Ring at Dawn

This is a life healing note written by an elderly university president. Deep in Longxiu Mountain, the "Y" shaped mountain embraces a special institution transformed from an abandoned military camp - Longxiu Mountain Boarding University for the Elderly. There are no noisy health lectures here, only a principal named Zheng Weiguo and his "Notes on Life Healing" which were started fifteen years ago. Zheng Weiguo, a retired soldier who had spent half his career in officialdom, once thought that the battlefields of life were on the border and in the workplace. Until the sudden death of his former enemy Du Meng, he was shocked to realize that those seemingly glamorous colleagues, leaders and even himself had scars from their original families deep in their souls. They were kidnapped by hereditary expectations and lost the coordinates of happiness in the endless "involution". From that moment on, Zheng Weiguo started recording. There are no health tips in the notes, only true and lonely soul stories - about pursuit by any means, about the exchange of benefits in marriage, and about the almost cruel expectations for future generations. Nowadays, this notebook has been made into a public "holy place" in the museum, and every page is filled with the tears and reflections of students anonymously or with their real names. Zheng Weiguo and his mysterious capitalist comrade, Li Shangxiang, his soon-to-be daughter-in-law who is proficient in psychology, quietly watch this holy place in the mountain. They don't instill truth, they only provide mirror images. Every new student who moves in is trying to see himself through the stories of others. This is not a passionate story about the counterattack of youth, but a solemn redemption about the second half of life. It tells how we sort out our origins with dignity, how we unload the burden of family, and finally hear the real bell of life at dawn.