Also known as "Back to Seventeen: The Aloof Academic God Is Waiting for Me to Keep Our Date"
Cheng Mo, an aloof and melancholy top student, hides his deep affection beneath a proud exterior. A solitary star shrouded in shadow, he can only show his vulnerable, fearful-of-loss side to the warm and healing Jiang Qingran. "May flowers bloom along your path" is the tenderness he cannot bring himself to express, while his tentative question, "Will you always be here?" lays bare his innermost anxieties.
An accident sends Jiang Qingran back to high school. The moment she sees Cheng Mo's lonely silhouette, she makes a vow: this time, she won't let tragedy repeat itself! Carrying memories of her previous life, she approaches him with the persistence of a sunflower. She stands up for him when he's isolated, offers encouragement when he doubts himself, and protects the spark gradually lighting up in his eyes with the language of flowers: "seeking the light."
But fate strikes back without warning. Strange accidents keep happening, and long-buried secrets from those days begin to surface as she changes the past. She thinks she's the only one trying to save him, unaware that Cheng Mo has already noticed her efforts. Hidden in his red agate bracelet is a silent promise: "I will protect the moon over Qingjiang."
As the gears of time warp, every change sets off a chain reaction. She never traded her rose, yet he made her his only light. At the moment when blood-red dusk mingles with dawn, Cheng Mo's words, "So you remember everything too," finally break through the surface, revealing the bond between them that spans time and space.
This is no one-sided salvation, but a promise to protect each other and be each other's starlight. When a sunflower's persistence meets the devotion of red agate, they will win their race against fate and, at the end of time, find peace together for all their days.
(Keywords: Transmigration / Mutual Salvation / Coming of Age / Fantasy Foreshadowing)
