Shen Nian fell ill late.
The kind of disease where the cause cannot be found, the root cause cannot be cured, and one can only watch oneself get worse day by day.
When she was dying, she said to Lu Shi'an who was guarding her bedside: "Don't meet me in the next life."
Then they were seventeen again.
He thought that he was the only one who had traveled through time, so he gave up painting, studied science with all his strength, and started from scratch - in ten years, he transformed himself from an undisciplined young man into a doctor of neuroimmunology.
She thought he didn't know that she had also traveled through time, so she left her hometown and cut off all contact - spending ten years completely erasing herself from his world.
He studied medicine to save her. She disappeared to let him go.
But no one has ever asked the other: Do you want to be let go?
Ten years later, he saw the name on the patient list for a clinical trial that he thought he would never find again.
