Because of an accident, Gu Zhaowen traveled through time and became the eldest daughter of the Gu family in Jinling - time stayed in July 1937.
She knew better than anyone else what would happen next: the July 7th Incident, the Battle of Songhu, and the fall of Jinling. And she is standing in the midst of history, unable to change a word.
Her engagement with Lin Jingjiang, the young owner of Linji Trading Company, was originally just a business between two families. But he helped her raise medicines, open up hidden supply lines, and used the price fluctuations of jewelry to convey information to her—she used knowledge to see the future, and he used means to pave the way for her. From raising funds for national salvation to joining the Morning Star Club, from testing defenses to fighting side by side in secret, they found each other in troubled times.
But she never told him: she knew the outcome of this battle. She knew Jinling couldn't hold it.
When Sakura Country Intelligence Major Yamada Ichiro let her pass at the gate of the city, there was no kindness in his eyes - he just put the prey back into the forest, and then closed the net with his own hands when the city was breached. What he wanted was not her life, but her eyes that refused to go out.
"You don't know what it's worth."
These were the last words she said to him.
The jade bracelet shattered in the snow.
Back to the world eighty-two years later.
That winter, the snow in Jinling was so heavy that it seemed to bury the entire city in white.
