He crosses a thousand years of time, searching for one person.
She forgets in life after life, yet always wakes from her dreams in tears.
When fate brings them together again and again, only to tear them apart each time, will time remember that they once loved each other so deeply?
Shen Yifan, whose story begins in the height of the Tang dynasty, has a mysterious past. Through imperial intrigues, the turmoil of war, and the glitter of modern cities, every life is devoted to finding the girl who once passed through his life in the blink of an eye.
Su Nian, from a palace maid to a modern librarian, has never remembered her past lives, yet familiar eyes always stir her heart.
She doesn't know that he has given up power for her, crossed battlefields, and endured misunderstanding.
He doesn't know that in every life, she has quietly protected feelings she never realized she had.
Yet hidden schemes and tangled bonds always try to keep them apart, making the tragedy of unrequited love play out again and again.
Until, in the modern age, the wheels of fate finally stop.
With tears in her eyes, she looks at him and asks, “Why... have you never given up on me?”
He gently strokes her hair. “Because time remembers too: I love you.”