If the other you were alive sixty years from now, would you want to meet her?
When she was twenty-eight years old, while repairing a piece of silk from the Republic of China, Lin Zhixia saw another version of herself - short hair, silver-gray uniform, standing in the light and shadow of the suspended train in 2085, looking back at her.
The woman's name is Lin Jianqiu. Sixty-three years apart, they share the same heart.
This is not time travel. This is "parallel self-symbiosis": the same fire of consciousness lit the wicks of two eras at the same moment. When they looked at each other in the gap of time, they realized that they were two ends of the same piece of cloth. And two men - one can see their existence, and the other is the only survivor of the time experiment - are standing in their respective eras, waiting to be woven into the same web.
Some people want to erase all parallel worlds and make time a straight dead line. They want to prove that time is not an enemy, but a friend who can talk to each other; the soul is not an island, but an island waiting to be connected.
And love is choosing the same person in countless parallel worlds.
