There is a kind of "time container" that no one knows about in the world - the time bottle. It can seal a specific period of time for a person, and it can also take other people's passing time as its own. People who hold a time bottle seem to be able to control time, make up for regrets, and reverse difficulties, but in fact, every time they use it, they are overdrawing their own life and severing their emotional ties with the world.
On her eighteenth birthday, Su Qingran accidentally inherited an old porcelain time bottle left by her grandmother, and was forced to step into the circle of "time bottle guests" hidden in the world of ordinary people. She originally only wanted to use this bottle to retrieve the last time spent with her parents who died in an accident, but she met one after another a businessman who stole time to survive, a student who sealed up painful memories to escape reality, a guardian who exchanged time for the future of others, and a paranoid who tried to monopolize time to control life and death...
Behind every time bottle, there is a period of unwillingness, obsession and redemption. Some people are willing to spend the rest of their lives in order to keep their loved ones; some people are willing to steal other people's years to make up for their regrets; some people lose their true feelings in the transaction of time, and some people keep the bottom line of human nature in the trade-off.
Su Qingran gradually came to understand through repeated confrontations and interactions with different time drinkers: time is never a commodity that can be bought and sold at will, and regrets can never be smoothed away by turning back the clock. Those times that seem to be saved will eventually come back to bite us in a more cruel way. What is truly precious is never to control the past or the future, but to cherish every moment of the present that cannot be reproduced. When she faced the century-old conspiracy hidden behind the time bottle, and faced the choices of family, friendship, and love, she finally chose to destroy the illusion of controlling time and embrace an imperfect but real life.
Purpose: Break the clichéd fantasy of "reversing time and making up for regrets" and reveal the truth about human nature that "the shortcut is the abyss": all choices that attempt to manipulate time and escape reality will eventually pay an equal price. There is no free redemption in the world, and there is no do-over in life.