Pei Zhaoye x Xie Linchuan
A taciturn, obsessive technical genius who turns his love into evidence x A resilient investigative reporter who has fallen from grace
Two male leads | Happy ending | Modern alternate universe | Equally matched leads | Campus mystery | Two souls sharing one body | Closed time loop | Identity reversal | Mutual salvation
Twelve years ago, a school's confidential exam papers and student records were stolen. All the evidence pointed to seventeen-year-old Xie Linchuan.
At the school's public hearing, Pei Zhaoye deliberately said he had first seen Xie Linchuan seven minutes later than he actually had. Those seven minutes spared Xie Linchuan criminal charges, but also confirmed that he had broken the rules. He was expelled from school.
From then on, the person he had once trusted most became the nemesis he hated for twelve years.
Twelve years later, Xie Linchuan is an investigative reporter, but after exposing Qinghe Education Group, his source retracts their story, his platform terminates his contract, and the entire internet turns against him. An anonymous email draws him back to his abandoned alma mater.
On a stormy night, an old mirror shatters. When he wakes again, he has become the second consciousness inside seventeen-year-old Pei Zhaoye's body.
Xie Linchuan thinks he has returned to expose the betrayal and save his younger self. But after sharing Pei Zhaoye's vision, he sees the truth he never knew.
It turns out Pei Zhaoye's coldness was never hatred. It was love he had no choice but to keep hidden.
One turned love into distance; the other mistook silence for hatred.
Only when he relives the fire in Echo Tower from twelve years ago does Xie Linchuan understand: the person he hated for twelve years had also waited for him all that time.
This time, he must rewrite more than a statement. He must reclaim the twelve years stolen from them.
