The Butterfly in the Time Rift is a time-travel novel blending mystery, science fiction, and tangled emotions. Su Yan, a cultural relic restorer at the Palace Museum, accidentally triggers a temporal displacement while restoring an ancient painting from the late Qing dynasty. She is transported to the twelfth year of the Republic of China, where she meets a young warlord commander who looks exactly like Shen Zhao, an auctioneer from the present day. As she investigates, she discovers that the butterfly-shaped birthmark behind her right ear is the vessel for the "Entropy of Time" System, and that every use of her precognitive ability consumes her memories.
As the present and a mirrored timeline intertwine, Su Yan gradually uncovers the truth about her parents' deaths: they did not die in a car accident, but vanished during a quantum experiment in 1987. Worse still, a mysterious organization known as the "Entropy Reducers" is trying to erase every version of Su Yan across all parallel timelines to preserve the stability of time. And Shen Zhao's true identity turns out to be that of the original time-travel experiment subject, who has been reincarnated 137 times...
As a glass butterfly becomes a temporal nexus, Su Yan must unravel a fate-bound curse like a Mobius loop before she is erased from existence forever. But the ultimate price may be forgetting everyone she has ever loved, including Shen Zhao, who has always taken bullets for her across different timelines.
**Keywords:** Time Travel | Mystery and Puzzles | Republican-Era Science Fiction | Memory Labyrinth | Tormented Romance
