One day in 1993, the family in Yuminli, Nancaonitang, Pudong, Shanghai, was silent and had a heavy heart. The 84-year-old Zhang Yansheng's face was gloomy, and Dong Wanhua and Shao Yuhua were silent, trying to speak but did not dare to speak. Their two daughters and son-in-law waited anxiously but could not break the impasse.
Dong Wanhua and Shao Yuhua met in Xinghua, an orphan who wandered around and experienced hardships, and eventually joined the Kuomintang troops. In the Xinghua military camp, he met Shao Yuhua, a woman from a famous family, gentle and virtuous, and talented. Dong Wanhua was deeply attracted to her, and the two gradually approached, although Shao Yuhua's family objected, she chose Dong Wanhua without hesitation, in order to defend their love, she was willing to break off relations with her family and elope with Dong Wanhua.
However, Dong Wanhua went to Taiwan with the army, leaving his wife and newborn son. Dong Wanhua had promised his wife that when he settled in Taiwan, he would take them to Taiwan. However, time flies, waiting has become an endless torment, the life of his wife and son cannot wait, and Shao Yuhua can only go to Shanghai to work hard.
Shao Yuhua had a hard life, and in order to take care of her children, she worked as a maid, working hard and earning a meager salary. She worked hard to make a living, and she had to go home to see her children from time to time, and her life fell into a bitter cycle. Although life is difficult, she believes that life will get better if she persists.
At that time, Dong Wanhua also married a new family in Taiwan and had children. He divorced his wife, but his thoughts for his wife and son never diminished. They both had a deep affection in their hearts, but time was relentless, and they were separated for forty-five years.
In 1987, demonstrations by veterans prompted the Taiwan authorities to open up their policy of returning to the mainland to visit relatives. Shao Yuhua and Dong Wanhua finally got in touch in 1993, and their meeting was exciting and tearful.
However, Shao Yuhua has remarried and has a new family. She decided to divorce, but the procedures were complicated, involved joint property and stalled for time. Dong Wanhua fell ill, unable to give up, and decided to continue to take care of him until his death.
The two eventually divorced and married, but Shao Yuhua's two daughters did not agree to her leaving Shanghai. Dong Wanhua gave up his pension in Taiwan and stayed in Shanghai.
They were finally able to get together, but financially strained, so in 2003, they went to Taiwan together, hoping to share their old age. Although already in Taiwan, Shao Yuhua hopes to be buried in the mainland with Dong Wanhua after his death, waiting for the reunion of the next life.