The Orioles on the Clouds: Battlefield Roses and People in the Sky

In the year 1944 of the Han Dynasty, half of the country fell. Nineteen-year-old Shen Yingshi came out of hiding and became the first female reporter. The legendary figure Lu Yangzhi returned to China and took charge of the Goshawk Volunteer Brigade. Shen Yingshi waited all night on a hillside in western Yunnan for a two-hour interview. She thought it was just an interview - until he recognized her as the daughter of an old friend, until she walked into his residence again and again during the war, until he flew across the sky to search for her for seven days and seven nights, until he carried her down from the second floor during the fire. He was fifty-one years old, had a family, and was an old friend of his father's. She was twenty-two years old. She was survived by five younger sisters, a grandfather from an important family, and a father who lived far away in Jinshan. Everyone said no. But he moved a wicker chair. Made up an afternoon. Waited three weeks. Ran 10,000 kilometers. Then he stood in the morning light and said to her: "I am alone now." She answered him: I want to think about it. This is a story about waiting and keeping promises. The war has burned down the mountains and rivers, but some people, like the sky, are always there.