A Mayfly in Amber

Amber preserves time, and seals away mayflies. Three talented young women meet at Yanyuan. A classmate steals the fruits of one woman's painstaking work. Her best friend sees everything, yet chooses to stay silent. Overnight, the course of their lives changes completely. One becomes a pregnant student who drops out and vanishes into the crowd. One becomes a celebrated author, rising to fame through plagiarism. One becomes a scholar, spending her days regretting her choices from behind a lectern. The glamour and disillusionment of success. The deceit and hypocrisy of academia. The illness and death of a single mother's son. A carefully plotted revenge begins to unfold. One woman ends her life in despair, her reputation in ruins. Another is forced to face the buried past and the truth. After taking her revenge, she inherits a will... An epic tale of women, betrayal, and redemption, three women's love and hatred spanning twenty years. When the final truth comes to light, who can face the deepest darkness and light in human nature?