In his sophomore year, Lin Nian was sorting out the 1950 admission files in the school history office.
When she turned to the third page, she paused.
The boy in the photo is wearing a gray sweater that has been washed until it turns white, with the collar slightly turned out - the kind of clothing that was only worn in the last generation.
She didn't know him, but she felt like she had seen him somewhere.
Then she turned to the 1960 roster and saw the same face.
In 1970, the same face, the same name: Zhou Hanchuan.
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She followed the address in the student registration system and found Building 401, Building 3, Zhuyuan.
When he opened the door, he was sitting on the bed by the window. He was holding a copy of the 1993 edition of "Introduction to Archival Science" in his hand.
On the library card on the title page, there are seven lines of names densely written——
Su Wanqing, Cheng Zhiqiu, Gu Wang, Shen Huan, Lin Shu and Bai Gui.
Each row has October 15th.
Different year, different ink, same handwriting.
\"Are you waiting for me?\"
He closed the book. A corner of the library card peeks out from the title page.
"Seventy-four years," he said.
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He reincarnates every ten years, and each time he never survives the final exam day.
Seven reincarnations, seven names - and she is the seventh.
There is only one way to break the cycle: before January 5th, go to the lake where he drowned in 1950, stretch out your hand, and finish the step that he left unfinished that year.
But the price is - she will forget who she is.
Concept: A person is trapped in time for seventy-four years. It's not that no one loves him, but that no one sees him. Until she opened the page of her library card in her seventh life——\\