He is Ye Chenyu — a born qiongqi.
When Lin Zhi, the woman he loved, died in a fire, he refused to outlive her. He went to his oldest enemy to end his life — and at the threshold of death chose rebirth: back to the Western Zhou where he was born, to walk the whole of Chinese history again.
From the Western Zhou to the year 2026, across two lives and nearly six thousand years, he follows the one thing that never fades — her scent. In every era he finds a woman who carries something of it, and stands beside her without a word.
They are mortal. They only ever know him as the man who was simply, always, there.