In the last second before the icy river swallowed her breath, all Su Wan could remember was the news footage of Li Jingshen falling from a high-rise. They had once been lovers, but their story ended in a horrific double suicide. Betrayal and despair had claimed them both.
When she opened her eyes again, the smell of chalk dust jolted her awake in the bitter winter of 1999. To her shock, Su Wan had returned to her high school days, to the point before fate had plunged them into the abyss. Her joy froze at once into bone-deep dread. The boy named Li Jingshen was in the class next door, with clear, handsome features and a bright future ahead of him. Beside him stood Bai Ruoyu, the pure and lovely school idol, his openly acknowledged girlfriend and first love.
Her heart sank into an icy pit. The searing pain of her previous life surged back: his bankruptcy, his brother's betrayal, his desperate leap, and the agony and suffocating despair of her jumping into the river after him. This time, Su Wan clenched her cold fingertips and swore with unshakable resolve: Stay away from Li Jingshen! Stay away from the man who brought destruction! She would live for herself!
And yet the gears of fate were already rusted together. Li Jingshen had also been reborn, carrying with him the fury of his fall and the shock of witnessing her jump into the river. His love for her had been carved into his bones. The profound terror and distance in her eyes, so out of place in a seventeen-year-old girl, seemed to hold the key to unlocking his memories. Doubts crowded in: Had she come back too? And that icy river... had she jumped in for me?
