This one gets you with the gap between what Qian Xiao wants and what she gets handed. She leaves a fishing village chasing an actress dream in the big city, and the universe answers with a crash and a pendant. The Time Dial is the rare superpower written like a toy first: she plays with it, giggles at it, treats rewinding the world as a party trick before anyone tells her what it costs. Then Seventeen shows up, an assassin sent by people who want that pendant, and the movie quietly becomes about two people who both had their lives decided for them. Romance and adventure genre tags, sure. What sticks is a girl who just wanted to be somebody, holding the one thing everyone else is willing to kill for.

Qian Xiao leaves her quiet fishing village with dreams of becoming an actress in the city, but a sudden crash derails everything. She survives, and she comes away with the Time Dial, a mysterious pendant that lets her control time. Thrilled by her new ability, she starts experimenting with it. That's when things turn dangerous: a criminal group targets her, and Seventeen, a cold, obsessive-compulsive assassin from that group, enters her life. He wants to quit and find freedom, while she wants to leave the island for excitement, so the two agree to team up as partners for a single day in the bustling metropolis. As they go, their relationship slowly shifts from enemies to partners, while the secret behind the Time Dial quietly shapes both their fates.