Love Will Tear Us Apart

Love Will Tear Us Apart

JustWatch#23,6985

Year: 2021

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Mo Sha

Budget: $10M

DramaRomance

Lu and Ling were high-school sweethearts who made a promise to marry. Their youthful commitment is put to the test over the following decade as numerous challenges and obstacles arise, threatening to tear them apart and forcing them to confront difficult choices about their future together.

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Lu Qinyang and Ling Yiyao fall in love during their school years, beginning with a confession letter. After graduating from high school, Lu Qinyang goes to Zhoushan to work, while Ling Yiyao continues her studies in Nanjing. Their relationship is opposed by Ling Yiyao’s mother, but the two remain determined to stay together.

However, as Lu Qinyang’s career develops, he faces exclusion and pressure from his superiors and colleagues. At the same time, Ling Yiyao’s mother falls ill and is hospitalized, increasingly favoring a rival suitor, Luo Tingyu. Burdened by debt and wanting to provide a better life, Lu Qinyang decides to leave Ling Yiyao and take on a long-term contract project in Xinjiang, breaking up with her on the day he departs.

Years later, Ling Yiyao becomes engaged to Luo Tingyu under her mother’s arrangement, but a phone call rekindles her old feelings for Lu Qinyang. They agree to meet at Jiayuguan railway station. Lu Qinyang had planned to propose there, but he is tragically caught in a blizzard.

Ling Yiyao waits at the station, while Lu Qinyang is found frozen in Xinjiang by his coworkers, still clutching the phone with which he meant to confess his love to her, a tear frozen at the corner of his eye.

Last updated: September 01, 2026 at 12:21

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