Falling in Love, More Than Once

The Looping Unrequited Love Journal: [Campus Youth × Fantasy Horror] [Time Loops × Redemption Through Unrequited Love] [The Gentle Top Student's Self-Sacrifice × The Clever Girl's Pursuit of the Truth] Jiang Yinyin thought New Year's Eve was the sweet beginning of her unrequited love. But the next day, he seemed swallowed by a dark fog: his distant gaze, the routes he went out of his way to avoid. Even Shen Yanling was astonished: "Han's acting like he's possessed." When they met again over winter break, Zhang Hanchuo was behaving strangely. It wasn't until the height of summer in their second year of high school, when black smoke from another world swept in with screams, that Jiang Yinyin realized the escape routes she'd clung to were all survival guides he'd warmed with his life through countless loops. "I wasn't chasing the light. I was chasing the escape route he carved out for me with the years of his seventeenth year." When Mingzhu's identity as Efu came to light, when Song Suyan's tenderness became a variable in the loop, and when Zhang Hanchuo blocked the black fog for her for the umpteenth time, only to remain forever amid the cicadas of their second year of high school, Jiang Yinyin finally understood: redemption meant he was willing to be trapped in a prison of time, spending every loop to give her one chance to grow up alive. [The loop starts for you alone. Redemption is the ending I willingly draw around myself like a prison.] [Everyone grows; sweetness and heartbreak intertwine as you watch a girl tear through the loop's deception and salvage her lover's shattered time.]