A girl who wanted to escape her small town gets a power that lets her rewrite every moment, then immediately has to spend it running. The romance blooms in the wreckage of her escape plan, a paid killer becomes the only person in the world who knows what she actually is. Time moves backward, forward, and sideways, but Qian Xiao only ever wants one thing to stay still: the moment she stops being alone.
Qian Xiao leaves her quiet fishing village with big dreams of stardom in the city, but a catastrophic accident derails everything. She survives the crash against impossible odds, and something even more improbable happens: she finds the Time Dial, a mysterious artifact that lets her manipulate time itself. Thrilled by her new abilities, she starts playing with seconds and moments like they're toys. That's when things turn dangerous. A powerful criminal organization learns about the pendant and wants it. Seventeen, an ice-cold assassin with obsessive tendencies and a reputation for precision kills, gets sent after her. What neither of them expects is how impossible it becomes to stay enemies. As Qian Xiao's infectious optimism clashes with Seventeen's rigid worldview, something shifts between them. An adventure blooms across a story where stolen moments become something neither of them wants to give back, where a girl who can bend time discovers that some connections matter more than controlling the hours themselves.