A mother-of-pearl button, long forgotten in the attic of an old house, unexpectedly pulls Li Wei, a modern-day graduate student in history, into the glittering, decadent Shanghai of 1923.
The other end of the button is connected to Chen Mo, a young watchmaker, and his fiancée, Lin Wan, who is destined to die in an assassination. To Li Wei’s shock, Lin Wan is her great-grandmother, whom she has never met. Chen Mo tells her that history is being systematically altered by a hidden force. Lin Wan’s death was no accident, but a precise attempt to erase a particular bloodline. This “time-link” button is their last key to changing fate.
Traveling between two eras, Li Wei transforms from a skeptic into a firsthand witness and defender of history. She stands alongside Chen Mo, navigating dangerous banquets as they try to unmask an assassin whose identity changes with every cycle. In the present day, she frantically digs into her family’s concealed past and discovers that her bloodline is entangled in a destiny bound to the secrets of time and space.
But time travel comes at a price. Each use of the “time-link” solidifies the cracks in time and space, pushing her into an ever more dangerous vortex. The hostile “Time Scar” organization is never far behind, while time itself reveals a terrifying power to reject and correct. More mysteries surface one after another: Who is pulling the strings? What is the button’s true origin? And what unspoken truth and sacrifice lie behind Chen Mo’s century of loneliness and devotion?
When Li Wei finally reaches the heart of her family’s connection to time and space, she faces the ultimate choice: should she correct history and save the source of her bloodline, or
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