Shen Heng found himself trapped on draft day.
Time is reset every time she dies, and she wakes up again with all her memories every time it resets. Poisoned wine, white silk, falling into the water, death with a stick - she tasted all thirty-six ways to die.
For the thirty-seventh time, she decided not to sit still and wait for death.
Late at night, she blocked the guard who passed by her window every morning.
"I know you remember it too."
Xiao Yan looked at her with complicated eyes. He has lived in this cycle two hundred and eighty-nine times, seen everyone die and be resurrected, and see all hopes shattered and rekindled.
"I'm looking for someone," he said, "someone who can break the cycle."
The first two hundred and eighty-eight times, he got it wrong.
This time, he found it.
There is an ancient seal beneath the palace, and the time loop is not a curse, but part of the seal. What is shut up in that dry well will come out every night to "clean up" those who know too much.
Shen Heng and Xiao Yan are the only two people who are awake in the infinite loop.
Or break it all together.
Or die together on the thirtieth day.
