Since birth, Qiu Xueer has dreamed the same dream again and again. In it, a figure turns around in the drizzle of the Republic of China era, falls amid the flames of war in the Tang dynasty, and softly calls her name beneath the moonlight of the Song. This obsession has never faded.
On the first day of university, she meets Wang Xiaochen beneath a cherry tree. The instant their eyes meet, both their coffees hit the ground, and they ask in unison, “Have we met before?” The gears of fate begin to turn.
It turns out they have lived through nine cycles of reincarnation, meeting and missing each other every time: once they pass each other amid war, once they part at their wedding, and once they are enemies, bound by love and hatred... Until this life, when they both awaken to their memories of the past.
But their reunion brings no joy, only a cruel truth: the “Keepers of Time” organization controls the reincarnation System, and a reincarnator consumed by hatred born of love plans to destroy every timeline. And they are the ninety-ninth pair of subjects sustaining the cycle of reincarnation.
They face an impossible choice: destroy the System and lose their memories forever, becoming strangers to each other, or preserve the cycle and remain trapped in fate, missing each other for all eternity.
Amid a rain of cherry blossoms at the end of time, he grips her hand and asks whether they can define a time of their own. Smiling through her tears, she replies softly but firmly: “I won’t wait for another life or dwell on the past. You’re here with me, right now. This is the best time of all.”
