Bai Xiaochun will risk EVERYTHING to become an immortal: just not his life. To him, nothing is more important than staying alive. Sometimes, the world needs a hero. Someone who will fight for the people. Face the villains. Except, Bai Xiaochun hates all that fighting and killing. Despite all that, no one has mastered the look of a lonely hero better than him. That wistful look of sorrow and heroism. Gazing off into the distance…. Can anything change Bai Xiaochun? Can anything make him grit his teeth and FIGHT? He doesn’t realize it, but there is….

Zorian Kazinski has all the time in the world to get stronger, and he plans on taking full advantage of it.

A teenage mage of humble birth and slightly above-average skill, Zorian is attending his third year of education at Cyoria's magical academy. A driven and quiet young man, he is consumed by a desire to ensure his own future and free himself of the influence of his family, resenting the Kazinskis for favoring his brothers over him. Consequently, Zorian has no time for pointless distractions, much less other people's problems.

As it happens, though, time is something he is about to get plenty of.

On the eve of Cyoria's annual summer festival, Zorian is murdered, then abruptly brought back to the beginning of the month, just before he was about to take the train to school. Finding himself trapped in a time loop with no clear end or exit, he will have to look both within and without to unravel the mystery set before him. He does have to unravel it, too, because the loop clearly wasn’t made for his sake, and in a world of magic even a time traveler isn't safe from those who wish him ill.

Fortunately for Zorian, repetition is the mother of learning…