Back to 1998: From the Start, I Threw a Rock

On the night of the Winter Solstice, Zhao Dong, captain of the criminal investigation brigade, was killed by his childhood friend, Zhou Xiaoqiang. He woke up in 1998, on July 15, his eighteenth birthday. That year, he failed to get into college. His sister-in-law looked down on him for being a deadbeat, and all the family’s money went toward building a house for his older brother and sister-in-law. He and his parents were crammed into a low earthen hut. More urgently, Zhou Xiaofang would be murdered two months later. Zhou Xiaoqiang would become an orphan, and eventually go astray. To keep history from repeating itself, Zhao Dong decided to save Zhou Xiaofang. To get her away from the place where it happened back then, Zhao Dong took Zhou Xiaoqiang and his sister to the county town to open a steamed bun shop. There, he met Shen Qing, a lively, cheerful rich beauty who was also a little neurotic. But Shen Qing told him, “One person must die for another to live. You can’t save Zhou Xiaofang...”