The Road Back to Light

Wang Yanheng woke up on his desk in Room 301 of Tianshu Building. He was missing a little finger on his left hand and had a marble with a fading thread in his pocket. He couldn't remember how many times he had woken up - he had lost his brother Yan Yang in the previous 47 cycles. With each failure, the threads on the marbles fade away; when the threads disappear completely, the younger brother will be completely erased from this world. The 48th time. He brought back three old things from the gray world: a marble, an unfinished note, and a burnt account page. They belong to three people who are no longer here—her brother, her, and her mother. He had to rush through the doors one after another before the marbles completely cooled down: the hospital corridor, the upside-down basketball court, the dry Xinglin River, the charred tube building, and put the people buried in the ashes back to their rightful place one by one. He rescued Su Xinxuan, Wang Yanyang, and the entire city. But his left hand is always missing a little finger. It wasn't until one morning when the sunlight passed through the window lattice of Tianshu Tower again and fell on his left hand with the missing little finger and her intertwined fingers that he truly understood that the meaning of the 48th time was not to change the past, but that he could finally sit back in this life with the remaining warmth of the past and never look back.