“How many years have you known me?”
“Seven.”
Shen Xubai gives a bitter smile. “But this is where my journey ends, and yours begins.”
Lin Xi doesn’t understand. All she hears him say is, “I’ll wait for you at the starting point.”
She doesn’t know that he is a time traveler moving backward, from age twenty-eight to twenty-one, while she is heading toward twenty-eight. For seven years, they chase each other around a Möbius strip, forever missing one another and forever meeting again.
Then she discovers the two-sided pocket watch: her twenty-fifth birthday is engraved on the front, and his handwriting from when he was twenty-one is on the back. It turns out this is the ninety-ninth time she has fallen in love with him, and the ninety-ninth time she has forgotten him.
This time, she chooses to smash the watch and bring time to a halt.
“If this is a loop, then let us be caught in each other forever, never moving forward and never turning back.”
