——Between the parallel universe and the countdown to the college entrance examination
On the first day when Feng Yuanshi was promoted to a key high school, she noticed the boy named Qi Lin.
He always sits alone in the corner of the classroom, with the cuffs of his school uniform always covering his wrists, and the scores on his report card are as beautiful as printed letters. Everyone said he was a genius, but no one knew that the scar on his wrist would glow with a faint blue light during the physics experiment class, and this light happened to be completely synchronized with the running seconds frequency of Feng Yuanshi's ancestral pocket watch.
When the pocket watch automatically popped open at midnight for the first time, projecting three entrances to parallel time and space, Feng Yuanshi realized that what her grandfather left her was not an antique, but a key that could fold time. From Monday to Friday, she is an ordinary student preparing for the college entrance examination; and every weekend, she must travel to a chaotic time and space to complete tasks.
What made her most uneasy was that Qi Lin seemed to have known all this for a long time. He would stuff slips of paper filled with formulas before she jumped in time and space, and would suddenly appear when she was facing the corridor with bloody handprints, but he would never explain—why was the blank space of his textbook filled with diagrams of the internal structure of a pocket watch? Why does he always stare at her wrist on rainy days?
As the countdown to the college entrance examination and the rift in time and space approached at the same time, Feng Yuanshi discovered that the boundaries between the two worlds were collapsing. When the pocket watch finally stopped, she had to make a choice: whether to repair all the chaos in time and space and return to a "normal" life, or to allow reality to be reorganized, even at the cost of Qi Lin disappearing from all timelines.
Concept: In countless parallel time and spaces, only the current choice can define true youth. Time can be folded, but growth is irreversible; destiny may have thousands of possibilities, but what really matters is not "what if", but the courage and cherishment at this moment. Deep connotation: ① Combating youth anxiety: Teenagers under the pressure of college entrance examination always fantasize that "another choice will be better", but every time and space has its own preciousness that cannot be copied ② The healing property of time: realized through time and space travel - regret itself is also a mark of growth ③ Existential color: people are not determined by time and space, but are shaped by their own choices