He used his pocket watch to steal his lifespan just to keep her alive.
Ten years, twenty years, and finally all.
From the candy at the end of the alley when she was fourteen, to her retrograde behavior in the college fire scene, to her abyss-like marriage after marriage——
Lin Shen pressed the crown again and again to force her back from death, despair, and destruction.
He became the most secret shadow in her life: the boy who blocked the knife, the brother who handed the candy, the sick senior, and finally the strange old man with gray hair on the snowy night.
But she never knew that behind those "lucky moments" was his flesh and blood fighting against time.
When she finally opened the diary, she saw those trembling last words——
"Qianqian, don't be sad. I just... Went to see the cicadas singing that summer before you."
Only then did she understand:
It turned out that every day she lived was earned by him.
It turns out that the cruelest love is to exchange one's own death for the sunshine of her life.
And when she held the broken watch stained with blood, she stood in front of his grave and whispered:
"This time, it's me who will take you home."
Time finally goes back.
The cicadas chirp again.
This time, can they survive together?
Intention: I hope that love can be redeemed and pursued in both directions