The story of Tenderness in Time is about Lin Ruoxi, a professional woman living in a modern city. She has a glamorous life on the surface, but she feels extremely lonely inside. By chance, she discovered an ancient pocket watch among her grandmother's belongings. Out of curiosity, she gently turned the spring on her pocket watch, and was instantly involved in a strange era - a small town in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty. In this time and space, she met the gentle scholar Su Moxuan, and the two quickly developed deep feelings. However, this love that spans time and space faces many difficulties: Su Moxuan's family strongly opposes this relationship, believing that Lin Ruoxi's identity does not match theirs; at the same time, Lin Ruoxi must also face the choice between reality and dreams. Should she stay in the past and spend the rest of her life with her lover, or return to the modern age and continue her original life?
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.