At eighteen, Luo Yunzhou leaped from a rooftop, plunging into the abyss with his unrequited love for Zhu Nancheng still unresolved. When he opened his eyes again, time had returned to the height of summer in 2019. A shattered soul was trapped in a twelve-year-old body, while cicadas screamed outside, tearing through the stifling air beyond the classroom.
This time, he tore up his recommendation agreement to Qingyu Middle School's junior high division with his own hands, steering his life toward Shengyuan Middle School, ten kilometers away.
The boy who had once passed him by was now at the neighboring school, folding a paper airplane destined to crash. As Luo Yunzhou rewrote the exam paper of fate, he knew that to capture a weary bird, he first had to become a forest where it could rest.
The student council president's armband was a web he had spun; the red check marks in the duty log were gentle traps he had laid. When Zhu Nancheng leaned against the window, and only Luo Yunzhou had the right to wake him, Luo Yunzhou finally turned the one-way arrow of his previous life into a two-sided Mobius loop.
But the family fortunes of the wealthy were etched with bloody history. Altered hospital records concealed the truth of a tragedy, while a packet of smoking-cessation candies sunk beneath a fountain fermented with lies. In this rescue that began with a scheme, the most dangerous thing was never the mint candy hidden in Zhu Nancheng's sleeve, but the wildfire of desire burning ever fiercer in Luo Yunzhou's chest.
When the older sister, returned from Cambridge, opened the hidden compartment in her younger brother's study, the torn traces in the notebook revealed the secrets of two lifetimes. At last, the boy who always spun a basketball with careless ease grabbed Luo Yunzhou by the wrist. "Luo, you scheme against heaven and earth, so why don't you figure out..."
Some waited to be reborn; others heard heartbeats loud enough to shake the world.
Theme: Reborn, mutual salvation
