Xie Jingyi died.
She fell from a ten-meter platform. Just before closing her eyes, she managed to say one thing to her ex-boyfriend: "I should have said yes to you."
When she opened her eyes again, she was an orphan in a Shanghai slum in 1933, about to be sold by her own uncle into the lowest-class brothel.
While fleeing for her life, she found a notice recruiting singers for the Paramount Ballroom.
Room and board included, with a guaranteed monthly salary. It was the only chance she had to survive.
She went onstage and sang an English song, stunning the entire audience.
As she thanked the crowd, she saw her ex-boyfriend, Shen Qiwu.
The exact same face, the exact same name, but he looked at her as if she were a con artist of unknown origins.
He didn't remember her.
Fine.
If he didn't remember, then he didn't remember.
She would spend this lifetime making him fall in love with her all over again.
