The Screen Hides All Former Joys

The Screen Hides All Former Joys Plot:

Antique restorer Lin Wan accidentally takes on a job restoring an ancient painting embedded in a screen. To her shock, the woman in the painting is her younger self—it’s the engagement work she created with the once-famous painter Gu Zhao. Seven years ago, Gu Zhao suddenly disappeared, and Lin Wan believed he had betrayed their promise of "using the screen as a vow, staying together for life." While restoring it, a terminal illness diagnosis from Gu Zhao falls from the screen’s夹层: he left back then to avoid dragging Lin Wan down. Now, Gu Zhao, weak from his illness, comes looking for one last look at the "former joys" in the painting. When the restoration is done, the smiling faces of the two in the painting overlap with Gu Zhao’s forced smile in reality. Lin Wan finally realizes: the screen can hide the past, but not the true love that never faded.