1, Changdong (white)
Changdong used to be an outdoor guide crossing Lop Nur, with rich experience and great fame. Two years ago, an outdoor group named Camellia planned to cross four no-man's land in China, and the invited guide was Changdong. Changdong led the whole team into the desert, and the captain and Changdong had an argument about staying overnight.
The team leader wanted to stay where he was, but Changdong insisted on driving for another two hours to camp near Goose Head Shapozi. No one expected that a rare sandstorm broke out that night, the sand dunes advanced smoothly and the camp was devastated. All the 18 people in the same trade except Changdong were buried alive by the sandstorm, and even the bodies could not be found.
After the accident, people all over the world were scolding Changdong. Changdong sold all his possessions, and after entrusting people to compensate the families of the deceased, he returned to China and went to his uncle Dingzhou. Then Changdong followed Dingzhou to learn to play shadow play. More than a year ago, Dingzhou died of illness, so Changdong dressed as Dingzhou, curled up behind the curtain and continued to make a living by shadow play.
2. Ye Liuxi (Nini)
Ye Liuxi woke up from the hanging noose. I don't remember who I am, where I was born, and who my family and friends are. When I woke up, I found a bag with a photo of Kong Yang in it.
Ye Liuxi learned about the camellia incident through this photo. In order to find out the mystery of her life, she came all the way to Xi 'an, watched three shadow plays in Changdong, took a magazine with a scandal in Changdong, and hid a strange photo about Kong Yang. In order to let Changdong be a guide, she took herself to Lop Nur. On condition that she help Changdong find Kong Yang's body.
3. Kong Yang (decorated by Zhang Zhi)
Kong Yang is Changdong's girlfriend. Before the "Black Camellia" accident, Changdong insisted on driving for two more hours to camp in Shapozi, Goose Head, because there were many desert rose stones with bare sand surface that looked like roses.
Changdong wants to turn off all the irrelevant light sources in the desert in the middle of the night, paint the desert roses in the sand mountain with special lights, and then propose to Kong Yang.
A Brief Introduction to Yumen in the West
The story revolves around "Desert Rose" Ye Liuxi (played by Nini) and Changdong (played by White), mainly in Yumenguan. First of all, it needs to be clear that the "Yumenguan" in the play is a historical relic in reality, but it is also the entrance to another world. Yumenguan is called the gate of hell. Once you enter, it is full of danger.
In this pass, there is a mysterious parallel space-time or Xanadu, which is isolated from the real world but connected. The world in this pass is full of magical elements, including ancient cold weapons and magical fighting. The heroine Ye Liuxi comes from this mysterious world, and the hero Chang Dong comes from the real world.
Strange events happen frequently around Ye Liuxi. She is eager to explore Yumenguan and find the mystery of her life. And Changdong, because of a desert storm, his life has undergone tremendous changes. In order to redeem themselves and expose the truth of the past, he and Ye Liuxi went deep into the desert hinterland hand in hand and embarked on a thrilling and romantic adventure in the desert.