Lin Yali is a graduate student in history specializing in modern family history. Stubborn and deeply empathetic, she has an almost obsessive pursuit of “perfection.” Ever since she was a child, she had heard her grandmother complain, “If your grandfather hadn’t impulsively proposed back then, I could have gone to university in Beiping.” Lin Yali came to believe that her grandparents’ marriage was a “tragedy that derailed a life.”
So she has always wanted to help her grandmother “escape her regrets.” She also hopes to change the past and prove her thesis theory that “key turning points in a family’s fate can be altered.” And so begins a wondrous journey through time and space...