short series

When the Fog Lifts

share time: 2025-10-04 12:30:21

Office worker Xue Mengyao stays up late flipping through her grandmother's old diary—until a jade pendant yanks her into a foggy 1925 Haicheng night. Her mission: save her great-grandfather Xue Huaijin, who's in a wedding robe preparing to marry Warlord Zhang's daughter! But grandma’s dying words haunt her: this arranged marriage is Zhang’s trap—the Xue family will be massacred by midnight! Mengyao has until the fog lifts (when the fifth fog bell rings at dawn) to do three things: get Huaijin to call off the wedding, expose the murder plot, and guard the pendant that can send her back to 2023. But her first move? Getting pinned against the Xue mansion gate by the young Huaijin—who’s not the “cowardly young master” grandma described, but a patriot hiding a Browning pistol! From bickering foes to tacit partners: Mengyao uses fluorescent powder (bought online in 2023) to track spy footprints, while Huaijin uses his chamber of commerce connections to learn Zhang’s real goal—seizing the Xue family’s dock (hiding anti-Japanese supplies). Worse, she’s falling for his protective “boyfriend vibe”—even though he’s her GREAT-GRANDFATHER! When the fifth fog bell rings and the mist clears, the pendant burns in her palm. Will she return to her 2023 office job… or stay with the man who makes her heart race, even if it means facing Zhang’s bullets?

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