At the End of the Cycle, It’s You

On the night after the college entrance exams, Shen Qingqiu and Shan Qingnan are trapped in the same endlessly repeating nightmare.

The roar of a hotel chainsaw is the overture; a woman's corpse, still warm in the desert, is the variation. They discover that each can control the anchor points in time, reborn within a despairing loop.

The loop is their deepest secret, and their sharpest weapon.

Using it, he goes to study at a university in China, while she heads south to Star Harbor. Yet they promise to love each other in the cracks between moments. His near-precognitive ability makes him a legendary inspector in the Hong Kong police; she protects the peace of everyday life from her classroom in Shenzhen.

But as the bizarre cases Shen Qingqiu investigates repeatedly point to fragments of "cosmic authority" scattered around the world, a mysterious organization gradually comes to light.

This is the epic tale of two lovers bound across time and space, and a high-stakes gamble about justice, choices, and growing up.

When the counterclockwise heartbeat sounds once more, can they break the final loop?