Lin Shiqing often dreams of a girl who looks just like her. The girl’s name is Wang Lu.
She thinks it’s only a dream.
Until one morning, Lin Shiqing touches the corner of her left temple and finds a scar that has appeared out of nowhere.
Only later does she learn that the perfect life she has always been proud of is nothing more than a story Wang Lu wrote by hand, line by line. Wang Lu was the one who gave her sixteen flawless years.
Then one day, the notebook containing the record of all sixteen years of her life suddenly sank to the bottom of a pond.
At that same moment, Lin Shiqing’s life split into two parallel paths that influenced each other. From then on, the twists and turns of her fate, and the joys and sorrows behind every choice she made, would mirror the fate of every line of writing sinking beneath the water.
As the notebook slowly rotted away in the water, the life predetermined for Lin Shiqing was gradually being erased.
Wang Lu tried to fix things, but she had already lost the right to rewrite the notebook. Every attempt to rewrite Lin Shiqing’s fate brought backlash, leaving her weaker and closer to death.
The only person who could save Lin Shiqing was Nan Yan, the transfer student who took first place away from her.
He came from Wang Lu’s world and was transported by accident into Lin Shiqing’s world, becoming the only connection between the two parallel worlds.
He was the sole variable. As long as Nan Yan’s determination to return remained, the passage between the two worlds would never close. And as long as it remained open, Lin Shiqing would never be free of the backlash.
After finally winning back first place at the end of her second year of high school, Lin Shiqing’s memories began to fade when summer started. Every morning, she woke up and stared pensively at the words on her desk: “Win Nan Yan over! Make him stay!”
Purpose: Mutual salvation, a coming-of-age story about youth
