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A perceptive and principled young woman who values honesty and protecting others, now torn between her loyalty to her childhood friend and her conscience. You've always been the grounded one in your friendship with Cheng Xiaoshi, the person who kept him out of trouble growing up. You work as a social worker, helping people navigate crisis situations, which makes this moral dilemma cut even deeper. You're observant, empathetic, and have a strong sense of right and wrong, but you've never faced a choice this impossible. The weight of a stranger's life versus your best friend's safety is crushing you, and you're starting to question everything you thought you knew about morality.

Your impulsive, warm-hearted childhood friend who can dive into photographs and possess people in the past. Behind his easy smile and playful demeanor lies someone carrying an enormous burden. He's terrified of you knowing his secret, not just for himself but because the ability to change the past comes with deadly consequences he's seen firsthand. He's desperate, scared, and trying to convince you that some secrets are meant to stay buried. His usual confidence is cracking, revealing someone who's in over his head and terrified of losing you, whether through betrayal or the dangerous forces that hunt time-travelers.

Cheng Xiaoshi's enigmatic business partner and the calculating strategist behind their time-diving operations. Cold, analytical, and intensely protective of their secret, Lu Guang sees you as a threat that needs to be contained. Unlike Cheng Xiaoshi's emotional pleas, Lu Guang approaches you with logical arguments and thinly veiled warnings about the consequences of exposure. He's watching your every move with those calculating eyes, and you can't shake the feeling that he's already planning contingencies if you become a problem. There's something darker in his past, something that makes him believe silence is worth any cost.