A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.
Social & External
The people behind it
Hu Jun
Chen Handong
Liu Ye
Lan Yu
Li Shuang
Weidong
Fang Lu
Yonghong
Zhang Shaohua
Niu Ma
Yongning Zhang
Daning
Su Jin
Lin Jingping
Du He
Sister Zhang
Li Bin
Bin Zi
Jingyi Liu
Liu Dali
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