At crimson dusk, the woman who fell from the top of the Pearl Tower suddenly vanishes from the security footage. An old, yellowed pistol bears a 1943 serial number, yet its bullet pierces the brow of a young woman in the twenty-first century. A diary burns in the wreckage of a car accident, its pages foretelling the opening of a bronze gate twenty years later. When Su Wan sees the scales of a blue dragon flickering in Huo Jinyan's eyes during her forty-seventh death, she finally understands: these murders spanning time and space are a divine decree of awakening, written for her by the gods…
