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Fragments of Moon Over the Pure Land

share time: 2025-12-27 06:02:17

Lin Xiaoman, an ad planner driven to the brink by a demanding client, flees to Yuexi Bay—the town where her late grandma lived, a "pure land" in her memory filled with osmanthus fragrance. But as she steps into the village, she’s greeted by red demolition slogans plastered all over the old locust tree. What’s more heart-wrenching: the developer’s representative in charge of the demolition is Su Mingyuan, her first love with whom she buried a time capsule in the tree hole back in high school. Back then, he’d squatted by the tree and said, "We’ll keep Yuexi Bay a forever pure land," but now he’s in a crisp suit saying, "Commercial renovation is the town’s only way forward." In her grandma’s old photo album, there’s a yellowed note: "Broken moon isn’t the moon—it’s the unspoken feelings." When the childhood candy painting stall is about to be bulldozed, Lin Xiaoman clutches the key to the time capsule and shouts: "Did you forget the ‘pure land’ we buried in the tree hole?" Meanwhile, in Su Mingyuan’s suit pocket, there’s his mother’s cancer diagnosis—he needs the demolition money to save her. Two people hiding secrets: how will they find their mutual "pure land" amid the "broken moon"?

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