[Love is deep for ten lifetimes, running in both directions. In this life, no one will let go again]
In 2026, during a heavy rainstorm in Shanghai, Lin Wan was stopped by a strange man.
His name was Shen Yan, and he revealed all her secrets at a glance - she loved drinking Kuding tea, there was a mole hidden behind her right ear, and he knew all the old habits that even she couldn't remember.
"For the tenth time," he said, "I won't let you go this time."
Lin Wan escaped. But the half jade pendant that her grandmother gave her before she died suddenly became hot in the thunder. Her vision went dark - when she woke up, it was already a snowy night in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a thin boy called her "sister" in the ruined temple.
Only then did she realize: He had been waiting for her for a thousand years.
He is an immortal and only meets her ten times in his life. The porridge in Bianjing, the rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the medicine chest in the late Yuan Dynasty, the plum blossoms in the Ming Dynasty, the fires in the Qing Dynasty, the ten-mile foreign market in the early Republic of China... She traveled through time and time again, falling in love with, parting, and forgetting him again and again. Every time, he remembers her; every time, she forgets him.
Until 1937, war was raging. He held her hand under the old locust tree: "Twenty years later, we will meet here." She cried and agreed, turning around and falling into the torrent of time.
In 2026, she is back. And he really waited under the tree for twenty years.
He gave up his life of a thousand years just to buy her a safe life; he gave up his immortality just to grow old with her.
"You don't have to pay back what you owe me," he said. "You just need to live well and love me well."
In 2036, the old locust tree bloomed again. The wedding he owed her, a thousand years late, was finally made up for.
