What a Mess: I’ll Be Waiting for You in the Future

(My dear Wanyin, I will wait ten years for you. The flowers have bloomed along the road; you may return at your leisure...)

In his third year of middle school, Zhang San had a dream.

In the dream, he fell in love with a woman named Yu Wanyin.

When he woke, all he remembered were her eyes.

So he spent ten years making his way to her.

On the subway, Wang Cuihua had a dream.

In the dream, she fell in love with a tyrant named Xiahou Dan.

Poison had seeped into the tyrant’s bones. Before he died, he said, “I’ll wait for you in the future...”

Twenty-eight-year-old copywriter Wang Cuihua has just been dumped after her boyfriend cheated on her, and now a scheming colleague is giving her a hard time. At her lowest point, Zhang Chengyu, a younger schoolmate who has pursued her for years, appears. He’s three years younger, successful, and inexplicably good to her.

One day, she dozes off on the subway and dreams she’s Yu Wanyin, a favored concubine summoned by the tyrant Xiahou Dan. He lazily says, “Hey, you.” Her heart stirs, and she tests him in English. To her surprise, he answers fluently. They recognize each other and face life and death together.

On the night of the rebellion, he sends her away. In a letter, he confesses the truth: he actually transmigrated sixteen years ago, and he is the tyrant himself. She turns around and fights her way back. “What are you afraid of? I’m even brave enough to love a tyrant.”

When she wakes, the subway has reached its stop. The man across from her has red-rimmed eyes. “Hey, you. I’ve waited ten years for you.”

“Hey, you” is where their story begins,

“I’ve waited ten years for you” is the answer to their story.