"Waiting in Time" tells the story of a love that spans time and space and the persistent protection of peace.
Su Wan, who comes from more than eighty years later, travels to Nanjing in the 25th year of the Republic of China because of a mysterious pocket watch. At that time, she met Shen Yizhen, editor of Xinmin Daily, by chance in troubled times. Shen Yizhen was attracted by Su Wan's unique temperament and novel insights, and Su Wan also gradually adapted to life in the Republic of China with Shen Yizhen's care and help. During the days when they worked together in the newspaper office, they organized materials and discussed the current situation together, and their feelings quietly grew inadvertently.
However, the shadow of war gradually loomed. Su Wan was well aware of the direction of history, the cruelty of war and the catastrophe that Nanjing was about to face. In her entanglement, she confessed her secret from the future to Shen Yizhen. Although Shen Yizhen was shocked, he finally chose to believe it. The two agreed that no matter how difficult the war was, they would stick to their belief in peace.
Just as the relationship between Su Wan and Shen Yizhen was getting deeper and deeper, the pocket watch suddenly moved, and the strong suction force forced Su Wan back to modern times. Su Wan returned to the real world and fell into endless longing and pain. But she did not sink. Instead, relying on her love for Shen Yizhen and her sense of responsibility for history, she began to study the history of the Republic of China in depth, trying to find traces of Shen Yizhen.
Over the years, Su Wan used various channels to piece together Shen Yizhen's experience in the war from yellowed newspapers, precious memoirs, and the accounts of Shen Yizhen's descendants. It turns out that Shen Yizhen always stayed on the front line of news during the raging war, recording the atrocities of the Japanese army with his pen and boosting the morale of the people. After the war, he went to Peking to continue his work
