She conspires with a ghost to claim her freedom, and tests her sincerity against a madman's obsession.
Lin Lean transmigrates into the body of Shen Manor's legitimate daughter. Forced to bind her feet, she jumps into a lake. Her blood splashes onto a jade pendant, and the female ghost trembles.
“I... I can't remember my name. Your blood woke me.”
“Then may I call you A Huan? May you find joy and freedom from now on!”
From then on, they rely on each other and study geology together.
But in the shadows, her childhood friend closes in step by step. When he discovers that she faked her death, he murmurs,
“An'an, I'll find you, no matter what... I'll hide you away, so you'll only ever look at me.”
Eyes red, he traps her in the library.
“Three years... You traveled across mountains and rivers with that boy, yet you won't spare me even a glance?”
Then a “little shadow” joins her.
“From now on, your name is Lin Hai, because you're as vast as the sea!” Over the next three years, he carries her compass and records coordinates, becoming her most devoted “sidekick.”
Chen Wenyan glares at the boy and sneers. “He's certainly clingy!”
Her mentor says,
“Lean, the stars never lie. Your path lies beyond the heavens.”
As she burns up her soul and tears through time and space, just before sending her back to the modern world, she whispers,
“An'an, if only I had been born as Lin Huan...”
“May you be as free as the wind in this life, measuring the world without restraint.”
In her hospital room, she opens The Travelogue of Lin Lean with trembling hands.
Inside is a crooked map hand-drawn by Lin Hai. In the corner, it says: [Big Sis, let's dig for rocks together again in our next life!] The bloodstained jade pendant rests quietly beside it, its inner side engraved: [For An'an, who loves geography most, from A Huan]
What she doesn't know is that Chen Wenyan took his own life on the day she died.
“If love is a prison, I'll be your jailer for all eternity.”
“Everyone says women belong inside those square little courtyards? Well, I refuse!”
