But Always 2014

"I've grown used to the sound of his footsteps."

Friends An Ran and Zhao Yong-yuan are separated as children and meet again years later in Beijing in the early 1990s, when An is a university student and Zhao is a hawker. They rediscover their childhood friendship. Zhao helps her raise funds to study abroad. They fall in love, but try to hide it. When Zhao sees An off he cannot help but tells Ann he wants to take care of her for the rest of her life. An is overwhelmed but does not stay...

"I've followed you for so long, of course I can recognize your footsteps."

Everything has been going wrong for An when in 2001, now successful businessman Zhao runs into her in New York. He wants to be with her. An has given up on their past, but Zhao's persistence moves her. They decide to get married, but another accident results in their being separated once more. Convinced they will never meet again, An returns to Beijing. And then...