Child's Play

In the 16th year of the Republic of China, Peking. In the east courtyard of the theater troupe "Baoxingtang" lived two famous actors - Shen Yanqing, a male dancer, and Lin Shuangbi, a Qingyi Kunling from the Cheng School. One is 27 years old and the other is 21 years old. They have been in the same class since childhood. They are husband and wife and sisters on stage, but they dare not say a word in the audience. The teacher's sect, the rules of the profession, and the fact that the male senior brother has been raised by one person since he was ten years old - all the words are stuck in his throat. In the spring of that year, a twelve-year-old apprentice moved into the east courtyard. His name is Wang Mantang, and everyone in the class calls him "Xiao Man'er". This story took him a lifetime to piece together - he remembered the night when his senior brother came back barefoot, the first time his senior sister only spoke three sentences to him, the first time Warlord Zhang slapped the table and applauded, the master's silence one night, the day when his senior sister was taken in... He didn't understand anything. By the time he understood, he was already gone. This is a story about missing, but also a story about drama—— In the play, they have been playing "can't be together" for a lifetime. Off-screen, their lives become the drama.