[Ancient era to modern day + fateful encounter + love across time + mutual healing + devoted to each other + slow-burn romance + living together + gradual relationship + love growing over time]
[Cool, gentle scholar from ancient times × outwardly cold but inwardly warm, capable woman]
An accident hurls Xie Zhouzhi, a poor scholar from the war-torn Northern and Southern Dynasties, into a modern city a thousand years in the future.
"Miss... may I ask what prefecture and county this is? I am Xie Zhouzhi. I was on my way to the capital to take the imperial examinations, but somehow I ended up here..."
Lin Wan looks at the young man, who seems to have stepped straight out of a period drama.
"This is Jiangcheng, in 2027. Your dynasty is long gone."
For over a decade, he studied by the light of a cold window, all for the chance to place among the successful candidates and serve his country.
But when he opens his eyes, his homeland, his future honors and career, his hometown and all he once knew have vanished into the past...
Unable to turn him away, Lin Wan takes the bewildered young man in his old blue cotton robe home with her.
Only as they spend time together does she slowly realize that Xie Zhouzhi, from a thousand years ago, knows nothing at all about modern food, clothing, housing, transport, or appliances...
His homeland is gone, and the road back is uncertain.
All the world's splendor feels foreign to him. The only place he can call home is beside this modern woman.
And at last, she understands: some people don't come to stay for a while. They come to put down roots.
He has crossed a thousand years to reach her, promising her a lifetime of peace and security.
She offers him the warmth of an ordinary life, giving him a place to belong so he will never have to wander again.
Daily writing, super beautiful!
Youthful and astringent, ignorant.