Shen Weixi is the Forbidden City's youngest expert in restoring ancient paintings. Always dressed in a qipao and cool as jade, she is hailed as a “walking portrait of an Eastern beauty.” But no one knows she possesses a strange golden finger: she can enter the time loops held within ancient objects eroded by the years and witness the moments they were broken.
After an accident, she is hired to restore a collection of Western antiques belonging to the Gu family, one of the wealthiest clans in the land. The moment she touches a cracked pocket watch, she is swept into a fantastical labyrinth of time spanning a century. There, she witnesses the tragedies that befall generations of Gu heirs again and again, and repeatedly encounters Gu Yanzhi, the family’s current head.
Gu Yanzhi is a man who can turn the business world upside down, calm to the point of seeming heartless. Yet he is the only “constant” in the labyrinth of time. He alone can remember Shen Weixi’s existence through the loops. As the cycle restarts countless times, their feelings leave marks that time cannot erase. He builds her a safe haven amid the torrent of time, while she searches through endless reincarnations for the one way out for him.
Their entanglement begins with a pocket watch and ends in the heart. Shen Weixi must not only mend the cracks in the artifacts, but also repair the past torn apart by the family’s curse. She is his unexpected turn; he is her eternity. At the end of time, what will she choose: the security of returning to reality, or remaining trapped with him forever in this romantic loop?
