The Warm Trace of Time | Arranged marriage to true love × mutual healing × surreal healing romance
A cold business marriage brings together two strangers treated like pawns by their families.
On their stormy wedding night, we accidentally fall into each other’s memories. He sees the painting of mine that was torn to pieces when I was fifteen; I see the despair he felt at seventeen when he missed his mother’s last flight. The uncanny power of “overlapping timelines” binds us together, forcing us to share our deepest wounds.
From mutual suspicion to working together to investigate, we uncover the cruel truth buried beneath this marriage for twenty years: the hardships he has endured for half his life and the very reason I exist are both part of a “conditioning plan” carefully designed by my father.
When he clenches a piece of sheet metal in despair in a back alley, I scream through his memories, “Stay alive. Someone will love you in the future.” When I break down and slash the canvas in the studio, he says softly, “Broken wings can take flight again at any age.”
Scars may never disappear, but love can cross time. When the scars on our wrists both grow warm on a snowy night, we finally understand: this cursed power is the one chance fate has given two broken souls to mend each other.
“Cracks don’t need to be hidden. That’s where the light gets in.”
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