When Lin Chuxia turned twenty-four, she began experiencing one paranormal event after another.
Seawater flooding out of an elevator, memories that weren't hers, old photographs with faces too blurry to make out, and a man's voice choking back tears as he called her name in a dream.
There was also an extra post on her social media feed, dated the summer she was twenty and tagged at a temple somewhere in Guangdong.
But she had never been to Guangdong, much less posted that update, which was visible only to her.
Following the clues, Lin Chuxia arrived at a strange island, where she met a strange young man.
He told her, “If someone dies with an obsession too strong to let go, they won't be able to reincarnate. Their obsession will trap them, and it will trap the person they're fixated on, too.”
Perhaps one day in the future, his wife will curl up in his arms one afternoon and coyly ask about his past love life. To make her happy, he'll tell her about their story, and when he gets to her...
He'll probably say he once had a girlfriend he was close to marrying, but they broke up because their parents disapproved.
Then his wife will say, regretfully, “What a shame.”
And then, suddenly cheerful, she'll add, “It doesn't matter. The two of us will make sure we stay together.”
He won't have to worry about his parents disapproving. He won't have to struggle to explain everything because of the north-south divide, or translate Cantonese into Mandarin.
We gave it everything we had, but we could only walk this far together.
Let it be. I don't blame him. Maybe in this world, being compatible matters more than love.
Bad ending / No real-life basis
Also known as: I Met a Ghost at Twenty-Four
The female lead does not have a mental illness or dementia. She really is twenty-four.
Theme: Love and compatibility
