In the evil hour of the 23rd year of Guangxu's reign, Qin Tianjian used Ziwei Dou Shu to forge a pair of time puppets. Lu Yanzhi was born with an emerald heart, the white eyebrows were dotted with reincarnation cinnabar, and their birth dates were bitten into death rings on the bronze armillary sphere.
From the golden days of Shanghai to the bloody dark alleys by the Seine, the reunion every ten years winds up the cage of time. The neon of Paramount is wrapped in a mechanical heartbeat, the mirror of the Peace Hotel is filled with nine generations of love, and the jade bracelet is broken into the blood of an eighteen-year-old virgin, but it spells out the seven-star light array of the alchemy room during the Guangxu period.
When Bai Lu cut open the mechanical heart under Mr. Lu's suit, she found that the residual snow from the nursery was stuck between the gears; when Lu Yanzhi tore the golden growth rings in the lining of her cheongsam and glimpsed the hourglass of time driven by the clockwork in her womb - this forbidden love that lasted for a hundred years was originally a thousand-year chess game laid by the Qintian Prison to suppress the evil star of Ziweixing.
They used their kiss to activate the reversal mechanism of the customs clock on the Bund, and used their entwined souls to feed the glutton of time that had eaten up the mortal world. It wasn't until the Suzhou River was filled with the corpses of emerald butterflies that I realized that the so-called fate was just a bloody love letter written to myself.
"Which snowy night do you want to go back in time? Was it the first time we met in the nursery in the ninth year of the Republic of China, or the moment when you and I were cast into the bronze armillary sphere in the twenty-third year of Guangxu's reign?" Bai Lu filled the Browning pistol with emerald bullets and pressed the barrel against Lu Yanzhi's heart, which was embedded with a cinnabar mole. "It would be better to let the moonlight of 1910 witness who should personally break this reincarnation."
This abnormal love trapped in the amber of time will eventually be buried for a hundred years with the artillery fire of nine time and space.
