When she was twenty-four years old, a shipwreck took away Jing Cheng's parents, but a mysterious white light changed her life - her body aged at one-tenth the rate of ordinary people. Twenty-one years later, she traveled to Lausanne, Rome, Tokyo, and Boston, hiding secrets, not daring to stay, let alone love.
Until an international forum in Geneva. The youngest president of France, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in front of the world's cameras, called out a name that had been forgotten for 21 years - "Teacher Jing".
When he was nine years old, he was a slum boy in the 13th arrondissement of Paris and she was his Chinese teacher. The tilted umbrella in the rain, the word "friend" on the whiteboard, and the sentence "You deserve all the good things" were engraved into his bones and blood. He said: "I will go to you. When I grow up, I will definitely go."
At thirty, he fulfilled his promise. And she is still on the run.
He is fifteen years younger than her. Her body doesn't age, but he does. The secret she had hidden all her life was shattered by his words, "I have been looking for you for twenty-one years." The power of the president, the eyes of the world, the age gap - he ignored them.
This time, can she still run? This time, he wanted her to know: time never fails affection, even if it takes twenty-one years.
This is an adult fairy tale about waiting, redemption and destiny. When the bystanders of time finally stop, when the boy grows up to be a man enough to protect her, they spend the rest of their lives proving that love is not about whether it is worth it, but whether it is willing or not.
