Year of Innocence

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1987. Eight-year-old Qiu Shi returned to Beijing from Mishan, Heilongjiang. In the cramped courtyard of Zhiyuan Hutong, he met ten-year-old Xu Minghai. Following that pure and innocent era, they played and fought, cried and laughed, loved and parted, yet always held each other's birth characters in their hands. - Xu Minghai: "What are you reading?" Qiu Shi: "Wang Zengqi's 'The Initiation.' There's a monk in it also named Minghai, who likes Xiao Yingzi." Xu Minghai: "Does Xiao Yingzi like him?" Qiu Shi: "Yes." Xu Minghai: "How do you know?" Qiu Shi: "She said, 'I'll be your wife, do you want me?'" - Keywords: Reconciliation after sep...