In the early 1980s, Daba Mountain in western Hubei was blocked by clouds and fog. Barrenness and feudal shackles restricted the fate of everyone in the mountains.
Ling Qinghe, an orphan girl with clear eyebrows and a gentle heart, lost her father when she was young. She lives with her frail grandmother and lives in poverty, hoping only for stability every year. Chen Wangshan, a young man from a neighboring village, is upright and sincere, proficient in writing, and is unwilling to be trapped in his fate in the mountains.
They met by chance while collecting herbs in the mountains, and the two fell in love at first sight. The clear stream in the mountains and the evening breeze in the pine forest witnessed their pure and sincere love. They supported each other in the years of poverty and were full of expectations to stay together for a lifetime.
However, the world is cruel, and Qinghe's uncle who is addicted to gambling cruelly betroths her to the son of a violent and disabled wealthy businessman in order to pay off his debts. The sick grandmother was unable to protect her, and Qinghe was in a desperate situation.
Chen Wangshan tried his best to fight, but he came from a poor family and had no one to rely on. In the end, he could not overcome the clan rules and the reality of money. In order to protect his grandma and not drag down his lover, Qinghe gave in with tears. Wangshan went to a foreign land to work hard in order to find a way out and save money to marry her.
Mountains and seas separate us, and hardships come one after another. Qinghe stayed in the mountains, suffering all the rumors and looked down upon, waiting day and night; Wangshan wandered away, experiencing the hardships of the world.
Fate is ruthless in the end. His grandmother died of illness, and Qinghe was forced to get married. Wangshan, who returned home, was seriously injured in an accident, and they completely missed each other.
Two kind-hearted and pure young people, wholeheartedly pursuing good and pursuing good in both directions, were defeated by poverty, time and fate. A pure love deep in the mountains eventually turned into an eternal regret in the depths of Bashan in the 1980s.
