A Hundred Glances Back at Her

“Never fall in love with me.” There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone, followed by a quiet laugh. “Are you that weirdo from the department next door?” She had no idea that this inexplicable warning was the only way out he had found after transmigrating through time a hundred times. Chen Shi watched his lover, Lin Xia, die at their wedding ninety-nine times. No matter how he changed the past, fate always found a way to take her from him, through car crashes, falls from buildings, and other accidents. He risked everything to invent a time machine, and after the hundredth loop, he finally discovered the answer: only by not loving each other could they escape this dead end. So he pushed the woman he loved away with his own hands, becoming an incomprehensible weirdo in her eyes. He protected her in secret, anonymously eliminating every danger, keeping her safe in the cruelest way possible. Until Lin Xia showed up at his door and stared into his bloodshot eyes. “Your idea of ‘protecting’ me is hacking into my life and controlling everything?” When the truth came to light, he learned that a temporal rift had long been buried inside her. Their love was the spark that would set off the bomb. The rift had already been triggered, and the countdown had begun... “This time, we’ll face it together.” She took his trembling hand. “Whatever the ending may be.”