Seven Lifetimes of Tears

Nanning fell into a rift in time and space while trying to save her boyfriend. To gather seven tears, each scorching drop burns her palm and her heart. When she sees the faces of the ones who shed those tears in each lifetime, she panics: are they medicine to lift a curse, or proof that he loved someone else in all seven of his lives? After a thousand years spent searching for tears, is this redemption, or a slow torture she inflicts on herself?