Springtime Through the Seasons

Zhou Yan protected Song Ning for twenty whole years. In the darkest moments of her life, he was the one who pulled her back from the abyss, time and again. She once believed that even if the world fell apart and everyone abandoned her, Zhou Yan would always stand between her and harm. Until the day he pinned her down with bloodshot eyes and clasped his hands around her slender neck, each word cutting like a knife: "Song Ning! The thing I regret most in this life is ever getting involved with you!" So she set a fire and burned their love, their hatred, and all their bitter longing to ashes. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the age of eighteen, to the year Zhou Yan loved her most. The young man still had the same features, and his love was as deep as the sea, but her heart was as cold as the moon. She could no longer summon even the slightest affection for him. Everyone said she had gone mad, abandoning the devoted Zhou Yan to marry the gloomy, solitary Xie Yan. But only she knew that she would use Xie Yan to settle every blood debt from her previous life, one by one! Yet one night, she woke from a nightmare, tears still on her cheeks. The man who held power over the entire court awkwardly drew her into his arms, his hoarse voice clumsily soothing her: "Don't be afraid... I am here." Only then did she understand that what she had been searching for all along was not another blade of revenge, but a tenderness that belonged to her alone.