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Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing, two ordinary people who lack the aura of protagonists, experience life and death challenges again and again to achieve self-growth.

The passengers on the bus, with different identities and experiences, have their own dilemmas and hopes for their future lives. Through their experiences, one can see the thickness of life, the gesture of survival, and feel the meaning of life.

The truth of the explosion is hidden in layers of fog, but justice will eventually come, as the name of the main character foretells, ushering in the "A crane in the clear sky will lead poetry to the blue sky".

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Episode 1 Recap

In the quiet city, bus No. 45 was running smoothly when a woman’s urgent voice suddenly rang out. She wanted to call the police—there was a bomb on the bus. Her name was Li Shiqing. Not long after, the bus exploded violently while heading toward the bridge. Opening her eyes, Li Shiqing found herself back on the bus. Her eyes were filled with panic.

The boy sitting next to her noticed the sweat on her forehead and kindly offered her a tissue, but Li Shiqing suddenly grabbed his hand like a madwoman and accused him of being a pervert, demanding the driver turn around and report to the police. The passengers on the bus tried to help her but no one was willing to go to the police station with her.

Left with no choice, Li Shiqing asked the driver to stop the bus and pulled the boy off with her. After getting off, she let out a sigh of relief and apologized to the boy before walking back. But just then, a loud bang sounded behind her, and in her panic, she was hit by a motorcycle and fell to the ground.

Waking up again on a hospital bed in the emergency room, she was only told she had a mild concussion. Meanwhile, the boy who had been affected by the explosion after leaving by taxi was brought into the hospital, covered in blood. Seeing his tragic state, Li Shiqing was deeply pained. Zhang Cheng, the deputy captain of the criminal investigation unit, arrived at the scene.

The accident had been caused by a food delivery scooter suddenly changing lanes, resulting in a major traffic incident. Ten people were originally on the bus, but only eight bodies were found. Surveillance footage showing Li Shiqing pulling the boy off the bus midway caught Zhang Cheng’s attention. The police came to the hospital to question Li Shiqing. She had originally planned to go to a bookstore downtown, but she couldn’t remember why she got off the bus midway.

When questioned by the police, she vaguely said it was because of heart discomfort and that a boy helped her call an ambulance. But as her memory gradually returned, she changed her story and said she encountered a pervert. Zhang Cheng came to see Li Shiqing and showed her the surveillance footage. Seeing the boy who got off with her, Li Shiqing began to remember and muttered that she had caused his death.

Watching her retch in disgust, Zhang Cheng tried to open a water bottle with his right hand but switched to his left due to pain. After asking his subordinates to leave, his gentleness finally made Li Shiqing lower her guard. She confessed—she was caught in a dream within a dream. That day, she boarded bus No. 45 at the school’s north gate and sat next to a boy near the rear door.

Feeling drowsy, she fell asleep on the bus but was awakened by the ring of an old-fashioned cellphone. A flash of blinding light followed, her face burned, and then her body suddenly felt light, as if floating. When she opened her eyes again, she was still on the bus. Just as she thought it was a dream, the same ringtone rang again, and this time, she clearly saw the bus below her explode.

Outside the room, the young officer Jiang Feng received news that the boy who had sat next to Li Shiqing was named Xiao Heyun, and he was now being resuscitated in the same hospital. Hearing Li Shiqing’s words, Jiang Feng angrily accused her of making things up. Although Zhang Cheng remained calm, he didn’t believe her either—but he still encouraged her to continue.

On the third and fourth loops, Li Shiqing tried to force her way off the bus, but each time ended in an explosion. Until the fifth time, Li Shiqing tried a different method. She cried out that she had heart problems and begged the driver to take her to the hospital. However, the nearest clinic was across the bridge, and all the passengers wanted to help by taking her there.

Only Xiao Heyun suggested calling 120 and volunteered to go with her. But the woman in the front row gave her some medicine instead. Though she didn’t get off the bus, she witnessed the entire crash—how the bus swerved to avoid the delivery rider and crashed into a fuel truck.

Li Shiqing gave an accurate account of how the bus swerved and crashed, astonishing Zhang Cheng, who promptly asked his subordinates to investigate whether Li Shiqing could have had any contact with the scene beforehand. She continued describing the sixth loop. This time, Xiao Heyun accidentally bumped into her chest while reaching for a tissue, so she yelled that he was a pervert and used that to get off the bus.

She didn’t know why the driver agreed to let her off, but she pulled Xiao Heyun with her to save him. Zhang Cheng received word that Xiao Heyun, who was being resuscitated in the hospital, was nearing death. At the very moment his heart stopped, Xiao Heyun suddenly woke up on the bus. Thinking it was just a nightmare, he looked over and saw a sleeping Li Shiqing beside him.

Episode 2 Recap

After taking a taxi, Xiao Heyun followed the bus route. Being wrongly accused of being a pervert left him in a foul mood. While he was on the phone with a friend explaining he was almost there, the explosion ahead affected his car. He was severely burned and near death. His last memory was the doctor defibrillating him and the sharp sound of the heart monitor going flat.

Awakening again on the bus, Xiao Heyun looked at the sleeping Li Shiqing beside him and remembered everything that had happened. Despite her protests, he tried to get off the bus but was mistaken for trying to seize the steering wheel. As expected, the explosion happened again, and both Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing woke up once more on the bus. Xiao Heyun tried every way he could think of to get off, but failed each time.

He was even pinned against the glass by a burly man. Seeing his impulsiveness getting him nowhere, Li Shiqing told him not to act rashly next time and to follow her lead. Upon waking again, she calmly analyzed the situation. She realized it was her pulling Xiao Heyun off the bus that got him involved in the loop. This time, she wanted to try avoiding the crash altogether to prevent the explosion.

Once again pretending to have heart issues, she tried to get the bus to stop. But Xiao Heyun told the driver to speed up instead. As expected, the same woman gave her the medicine again. The two of them sat nervously, keeping a close eye on the delivery rider outside. This time, they managed to stop the driver in time, avoiding the crash with the fuel truck. They finally let out a breath of relief, thinking the loop was over.

But then, the old cellphone ringtone played again, and the explosion still happened—leaving Li Shiqing in panic. Waking up once again, she recalled hearing the ringtone during her first and second loops, when she hadn’t disturbed the driver. She quickly realized—there really was a bomb on the bus. To get off safely, they once again pretended she encountered a pervert and got off at Qingshui Alley.

Li Shiqing called the police and said there was a bomb on the bus that needed to be stopped urgently. But when the police pressed for details, she couldn’t answer. Xiao Heyun told her to hang up and turn off the phone. Unfortunately, it was already too late. From the overpass, the two of them saw thick smoke rising in the distance—the explosion was still caused by a collision with a fuel truck.

At the police station, Zhang Cheng listened to the call recording and issued orders to be on alert for any explosives on the bus to prevent a secondary explosion. He also spotted Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing on surveillance standing on the overpass. The two originally wanted to hand over their phones and speak to the police, but given their bizarre situation, they knew no one would believe them. So they went to a nearby park to analyze the situation.

Li Shiqing suspected she might already be dead and was just reliving her death, but Xiao Heyun believed each loop allowed them to change the situation on the bus, proving they weren’t dead. Li Shiqing explained she had pulled him off the bus because he was the only one who helped her every time—she wanted to save him. Because of the strange content of their report, the police quickly locked onto the two and decided to question them.

Episode 3 Recap

Xiao Heyun decided to organize their experiences before the police approached. So far, they had experienced ten loops. The tenth time, they woke at 1:36, and the explosion happened at 1:42 at the intersection due to a crash with a fuel truck. In the ninth loop, they woke at 1:37, and the explosion location was on the bridge, triggered manually. Analyzing all the details, they realized the time they woke up moved earlier by one minute each loop.

But what did that earlier time mean? They reviewed the times they boarded the bus and Li Shiqing’s experiences from previous loops. Xiao Heyun noticed she seemed to be hiding something, while the only thing she could remember clearly was the old cellphone ringtone. She also recalled being questioned by Zhang Cheng in the sixth loop and believed the police would never believe them.

But Xiao Heyun thought that as long as the police found the bomb, they’d be cleared of suspicion. Zhang Cheng, together with Jiang Feng, found the two and brought them back to the police station. On the way, Zhang Cheng had them ride in separate cars and questioned Xiao Heyun about his travel plans that day. A friend called, blaming him for being late and causing investors to leave, embarrassing him. Xiao Heyun awkwardly ended the call.

When Zhang Cheng asked about Li Shiqing, he truthfully said they had just met on the bus. It was difficult to retrieve the surveillance footage from the crashed vehicle, and Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing were the only leads. Faced with Zhang Cheng’s questions, Li Shiqing was speechless. So he placed the analysis paper Xiao Heyun had thrown in the trash in front of her. Jiang Feng, impatient and hot-tempered, didn’t believe Xiao Heyun’s explanations either.

Watching the wall clock, Xiao Heyun grew increasingly anxious. Jiang Feng sought approval from Director Du, who was dissatisfied with his attitude and ordered a drug test. Facing Zhang Cheng’s persistent questioning, Li Shiqing addressed him as “Officer Zhang” and asked whether any police responded after her report. Zhang Cheng keenly noticed she knew his surname—and even about the injury to his right hand.

Left with no choice, she told him they had met during the loop in the hospital and explained the time loop again. Xiao Heyun’s story also failed to gain police trust. The only thing Li Shiqing was certain about was hearing the old cellphone ringtone. But she still wasn’t sure whether it was related to the explosion. The police were near breaking point.

Jiang Feng didn’t believe in the loop, but Zhang Cheng noted the two had no reason to lie and no relationship between them. The police believed the analysis diagram Xiao Heyun had drawn was their crime plan. Director Du suggested switching the interrogators. The police tried different interrogation techniques but made no progress. The drug tests came back clean.

During the questioning, Jiang Feng said Xiao Heyun claimed it was just a simple accident, and Li Shiqing immediately caught the flaw in that logic. Just then, Director Du called Zhang Cheng and Jiang Feng out—because explosive residue had indeed been found on the bus at the scene. Faced with the arrival of their superiors, Director Du decided to detain the two and focus on interrogating Xiao Heyun, whose psychological defense was weaker.

Meanwhile, Li Shiqing, still unconscious, woke up once more on the bus. A man passed by her, and the broadcast announced the next stop—Yanjiang West Road.

Episode 4 Recap

The novice Jiang Feng followed his mentor Zhang Cheng on a mission. Dressed in plain clothes, he was visibly tense, which alerted the suspect. Nervous and on edge, Jiang Feng failed to notice the suspect pulling out a knife beneath him. Zhang Cheng quickly stepped forward to grab the weapon, but his right hand was slashed, bleeding profusely. Li Shiqing woke up on the bus again as it approached the Yanjiang West Road stop.

Xiao Heyun was leaning on her shoulder, asleep and unaware. He didn’t fully wake up until Li Shiqing stood up and he hit his head. The two realized that every time they fell asleep, they would return to the loop. Xiao Heyun admitted that he didn’t trust Li Shiqing at first, but now they had to work together. They had learned from the police that there really was a bomb on the bus.

Li Shiqing shouted to the driver, trying to get him to stop, but just as she spoke, the bus exploded and veered off the road. When they woke up again, they confirmed that it was a man-made explosion. Xiao Heyun analyzed that the bomb was most likely hidden in a backpack. Passengers without backpacks and the aunt who gave Li Shiqing a medicine bag full of pills could be ruled out.

However, the man in the last row, wearing a cap and mask and holding a backpack, was no longer on the bus. The two got off at Yanjiang West Road Station. Xiao Heyun saw the masked man board the bus. Li Shiqing, standing beside him, called the police to report the bomb. Xiao Heyun slipped behind the bus stop sign, deliberately avoiding Li Shiqing, and pretended to talk on his phone, warning her to keep her distance from him.

Xiao Heyun found a remote and quiet park, deliberately avoiding surveillance cameras along the way. Li Shiqing didn’t understand his behavior, but Xiao Heyun explained that this time they had exited the bus normally. If she didn’t call the police, they would have more time to analyze the situation. But if this really was the last loop, then they had to save the remaining passengers.

However, if they called the police rashly, they wouldn't be able to assist in solving the case. Kindness isn’t just a virtue; it must be matched with capability. Xiao Heyun wanted to wait until the timeline shifted earlier, giving the police enough time to investigate before calling them. That way, they could also gather more evidence. But Li Shiqing asked him in return—if the time kept shifting earlier, would he still choose to get on the bus?

After a brief quarrel, Xiao Heyun calmed down and decided to go with Li Shiqing to see whether the police could stop the explosion. Zhang Cheng set up a blockade on the bridge, and Jiang Feng boarded the bus for inspection. He ordered all passengers off the bus, but insisted they leave their belongings. An old man refused to leave his snakeskin bag.

Jiang Feng and other officers stepped in to stop him, but during the scuffle, the bus exploded again. Li Shiqing received a call from the police and decided to be questioned alone. Xiao Heyun, still concerned, saved her number and silently watched her get into the police car from behind a statue.

His partner called, reminding him that the CEO of the investment firm had come in person to discuss his game design, and he had to show up no matter what. After one last glance at the bus explosion on the bridge, Xiao Heyun rode off on his bicycle. However, because he got off the bus with Li Shiqing, the police had already taken notice of him. Xiao Heyun was upset about being asked to remove violent elements from his game.

He gave up negotiating with the investors and, thinking about what Li Shiqing had said, began searching for information about the Route 45 bus explosion. Online, the stated cause of the accident was that the driver lit a cigarette with a lighter, which exploded and caused the bus to self-destruct. The police didn’t believe Li Shiqing’s explanation about the loop, but she was able to accurately name Zhang Cheng and Jiang Feng.

Upon hearing about Jiang Feng’s sacrifice, Li Shiqing felt deeply guilty, but still failed to gain the police’s trust. Xiao Heyun called, and Zhang Cheng, who was interrogating her, picked up. Li Shiqing quickly shouted that they had broken up and asked not to be contacted again. Xiao Heyun immediately understood her situation and gently said, “Just sleep—it’ll all be fine.

Episode 5 Recap

The police quickly located Xiao Heyun by tracing the call. Realizing he couldn’t escape, Xiao Heyun turned off his phone and rushed to a nearby pharmacy, trying to buy sleeping pills. Without a prescription, he could only purchase melatonin recommended by the staff. Hesitating about turning his phone back on to pay, he was eventually rushed by the clerk—this led Zhang Cheng and the others to track him down.

Carrying a bottle of baijiu bought from a supermarket, Xiao Heyun took the pills and passed out drunk in an alley. When Zhang Cheng arrived, Xiao Heyun murmured that he didn’t want to be locked in a dark room again and questioned why they should be dispatched when they were no longer in the loop—police lives matter too. Sitting in the police car, Zhang Cheng recalled memories of Jiang Feng with teary eyes.

Xiao Heyun once again woke up on the bus to Li Shiqing’s shouting. Because of Jiang Feng’s sacrifice, Li Shiqing decided not to call the police again. Xiao Heyun also resolved to stay and face things with her. They planned to first locate the bomb. As the masked man boarded the bus, Li Shiqing asked Xiao Heyun to pretend they were a couple arguing in order to get closer to him.

But Xiao Heyun had no experience in love or acting. His awkwardness caused them to miss the opportunity. The second time, Xiao Heyun accused the masked man of secretly filming his girlfriend as a pretext to start a confrontation. But the masked man clutched his backpack tightly, not letting go even during an asthma attack. The driver had to pull over, but they still failed to prevent the explosion.

On the third attempt, Xiao Heyun finally realized they could stop the masked man from boarding the bus. The two coordinated to block him, and when they opened his bag, a thin stray cat jumped out. It turned out the masked man was an animal rescuer. He had been so nervous because pets weren’t allowed on buses. Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing helped return the cat. As the explosion happened in the distance, they walked away calmly.

The masked man was surprised by their reaction. After seeing the bus explosion news at a pet store, he began to sense that something was off. Li Shiqing thought that since they had stopped the masked man, he might now also be part of the loop, giving them another ally. But Xiao Heyun unexpectedly opposed the idea and made up a bunch of excuses.

In truth, he just wanted to show Li Shiqing that he wasn’t weak, which made her both amused and exasperated. They went to a quiet café to analyze the loop. They discovered that their physical states didn’t carry over—money spent would return in the next loop, and even gained weight would disappear. They ordered a table full of food and resumed their search for clues. They found that only when both of them fell asleep would the loop restart.

Otherwise, one would remain in a standby state within a dream, waiting until the other also slept. Realizing their limited search abilities, Xiao Heyun suggested that next time they entered the police station, they should try to gather more information about the passengers. Online, they found that the chatty man who liked taking videos on his phone was a social media influencer named "Happy Bro.

" After the explosion, his colleague did a livestream at the scene, and many friends and fans visited to mourn him. Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun returned to the scene to find more information about the deceased passengers. While watching Happy Bro’s short videos, the masked man suddenly appeared and stopped them, asking if they knew the truth about the explosion.

Xiao Heyun wanted to make an excuse and leave, but when the masked man threatened to call the police, Li Shiqing reluctantly said it was hard to explain. The masked man seemed to understand and invited them to go elsewhere for a more detailed conversation.

Episode 6 Recap

The police quickly established a special task force to investigate the explosion. Zhang Cheng laid out the work plan: they would check the social connections of the victims to see if any had enemies, and also investigate passengers who got on or off at each stop. The masked man brought Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing to a hidden room filled with anime figures and cats.

Li Shiqing casually asked why he kept cats despite having asthma, surprising him—how could a stranger know about his illness? Li Shiqing had to confess the truth about the time loop. The masked man questioned why they were in a loop now since it wasn’t August—only when 8 is turned sideways does it become the infinity symbol.

The masked man's calmness made Li Shiqing happy, but Xiao Heyun was unimpressed by his constant anime and gaming references, calling him an over-imaginative kid. The masked man was thrilled to be part of a world-saving mission and found the idea of the loop fascinating. After ruling out the masked man as a suspect, they continued investigating other passengers. Xiao Heyun drew a diagram of the bus seating.

The muscular man by the door and the livestreamer standing nearby carried no bags and seemed righteous—suspicion ruled out. The old man by the window had a torn snakeskin bag, revealing watermelons inside. A woman on the other side had a red bag at her feet with unknown contents. An old woman clutching a backpack had it filled with medicine. One remaining suspect was a man with a suitcase.

The masked man questioned why he would take a transfer bus when there were direct routes to the airport and train station. Maybe he wasn’t heading to either. Under pressure from his mother, the masked man reluctantly went home. His usually aloof cats were unusually affectionate. He coldly wondered what would happen to them in the loops where he died.

Before parting, the masked man offered his hideout to Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun and told them that even if he wasn’t in the loop, he would believe and help them if they called his name. His name was: Lu. Apostle of Cats. Conqueror of Asthma. The Chosen One. Di. Having someone believe them warmed Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing’s hearts. They awkwardly booked a room at an internet café. Under the ambiguous lighting, Li Shiqing felt embarrassed.

Xiao Heyun pretended to stay calm and pulled her to sit, knowing that uncovering the truth behind the explosion was the real priority. Back home, Lu Di’s mother found cat hair on him and used a lint roller on his whole body. Unable to bear his parents’ control anymore, he shut himself in his room. His asthma flared up, and he had to use his inhaler several times to calm down.

Meanwhile, the police, having reviewed surveillance footage, contacted Lu Di. Lu Di got into his father’s car on the way to the police station, recalling the letter he had just written. He was grateful for his parents’ care and this world. His asthma hadn’t sealed off his heart. In fact, he had a richer inner world than most healthy children. He hoped his parents could understand his inner self.

From the police report, Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing learned that the bus driver was named Wang Xingde, a good man known for returning lost property. While watching Happy Bro’s video, they noticed a strange expression on an old man in the background. Just then, Li Shiqing received a late-night call from the police. Xiao Heyun immediately realized the explosives had been found. But would Lu Di know how to handle the police's questioning?

Lu Di calmly explained the misunderstanding about his backpack and emphasized that the two had helped him find his cat, trying to reduce police suspicion. But Zhang Cheng noticed something unusual and warned Jiang Feng to thoroughly investigate the trio’s relationship.

Episode 7 Recap

In the prison visitation room, a man happily tells his wife that he's about to be released and come home, crediting it to his good behavior in prison. He’s even planning to go back to farming watermelons. However, his wife reveals she has sold the house and plans to move with their son, Xiaolong, to Jialing. Because of having a father who’s a murderer, Xiaolong is constantly looked down upon by others—they’ve decided to leave for good this time.

Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun arrive at the police station. Zhang Cheng questions her about why she suddenly got off the bus. Li Shiqing explains that it was due to an argument with Lu Di after her boyfriend’s backpack was stolen, but her story is full of inconsistencies. Xiao Heyun intentionally mentions the two men carrying luggage and a watermelon as suspicious. Under Li Shiqing’s identification, the man carrying the watermelon, named Ma Guoqiang, comes under police scrutiny.

Although all three of them cooperate actively, Zhang Cheng finds it suspicious that they can describe the situation on the bus in such detail. He decides to release Li Shiqing for now, while keeping Xiao Heyun and Lu Di for further questioning. As she walks through the hallway, Li Shiqing is emotionally affected by the grief of the victims' families.

Overhearing the police questioning Ma Guoqiang’s ex-wife, she pretends to wait for her boyfriend, hoping to gather more information about the passengers. Ma Guoqiang was previously imprisoned for a hit-and-run. After early release, he returned to farming. Zhang Cheng questions his son Xiaolong, who says they haven’t seen each other in years. The victim of the hit-and-run was Xiaolong’s classmate, and it’s been his mother and himself paying the compensation.

When Zhang Cheng asks whether the victim’s family holds a grudge, Xiaolong denies it, but he starts having doubts internally. Li Shiqing tries unsuccessfully to speak with Ma Guoqiang’s ex-wife. She overhears Xiaolong talking to his mother about the debt and the case involving a life. His mother gets very agitated—if this tragedy really happened because of revenge, then it’s a grave sin. Li Shiqing follows the weary Xiaolong out of the station.

When she learns that he feels guilty for his father going alone to find him, she realizes that Xiaolong’s fear and hesitation indirectly led to this tragedy. After seven years in prison, his father had become disconnected from society. Lu Di’s mother reads what he wrote and rushes to the police station in a panic. She tells the police that he’s been manipulated into trying to stop a bombing.

Hearing this, Zhang Cheng immediately arranges to bring back and interrogate Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun separately. Pressured by his mother’s persistent questioning, Lu Di finally breaks down, saying he feels it’s his destiny to have been chosen. His father, understanding his inner torment, tells his wife to leave the room and comforts Lu Di, advising him to cooperate with the police.

The three finally reveal the truth about the time loop, but the police don’t believe a word of it. As the clock strikes twelve and everything resets again, Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing wake up on the bus, realizing that Lu Di’s suicide note has caused all the trouble. Li Shiqing tells Xiao Heyun about Ma Guoqiang’s past. Xiao Heyun tries to check the bag by his feet, but Ma Guoqiang is too cautious.

Left with no choice, the two pin their hopes on Lu Di, only to find he hasn’t entered the loop this time. With no other option, they investigate on their own. Xiao Heyun pretends to argue and crushes two watermelons in the process. Ma Guoqiang, worried about the melons, shoves him away and instinctively raises his hands in fear. After everyone calms him down, he looks at the crushed melons with sorrow.

Thinking quickly, Li Shiqing tells Ma Guoqiang she is Xiaolong’s coworker and has seen his photo. She says Xiaolong wanted to visit him during the New Year. Ma Guoqiang explains that a relative saw Xiaolong’s post about wanting to eat his father’s watermelon, so he carried the melons all this way. He gratefully shares the broken watermelon with Li Shiqing and the passengers.

Before the familiar ringtone of the old phone rings again, Li Shiqing quickly relays Xiaolong’s words to Ma Guoqiang. The explosion happens, and the loop restarts. Now, only two suspicious passengers remain—both of whom boarded at the same stop.

Episode 8 Recap

Lao Jiao and his buddies eat together, worrying about their lack of education and what jobs they can find. The construction site had an accident, and his daughter is about to take her college entrance exams. He’s been saving every penny for her. A friend suggests he buy a second-hand electric bike to deliver food, but even that costs money, and he’s unsure. Due to a routine check, the landlord tells Lao Jiao to vacate the garage he’s renting.

He silently leaves with his packed suitcase. Watching the two remaining suspects, Li Shiqing uses her period as an excuse to get close to the cold-faced woman and notices a pressure cooker in her plastic bag. The woman claims it’s filled with meat. Li Shiqing becomes suspicious, but Xiao Heyun notes that when she peeked into the bag, the woman didn’t react—he still believes Lao Jiao, with his suitcase, is more suspicious. Time continues to move forward earlier.

They decide to take a gamble and throw Lao Jiao’s suitcase off the bus, but he suddenly opens it and starts searching. As they anxiously check the contents, he pulls out some sanitary pads and gives them to Li Shiqing. This eliminates him as a suspect, leaving only one. At the next stop, Xiao Heyun pushes Li Shiqing to run while he rushes toward the woman with the pressure cooker.

She coldly watches him pull the pressure valve, and the bus explodes again. Lao Jiao’s suitcase had been given to him by the kind-hearted landlord, and the items inside were the landlord’s wife’s, forgotten during packing. Lao Jiao takes his daughter’s awards and decides to ask a fellow worker across the river for a place to stay. His sensible daughter even offers to drop out of school to help pay off debt, but he can’t bear the thought.

Sighing, he heads toward the bus stop. Nearby, the woman with the pressure cooker is also laboriously making her way up the stairs to the stop. Li Shiqing is awakened by the sound of a coin dropping. The woman with the pressure cooker is already on the bus. This time, the timeline hasn’t moved forward, and Xiao Heyun is deeply asleep and hard to wake.

Despite calls from Li Shiqing and the passengers, he finally wakes up—only to find he can hear voices but is still stuck in standby mode. They realize that once the bomb is on the bus, time no longer advances. Li Shiqing fears this may be their final chance to survive. They want to get off at the next stop—they are just ordinary people who want to live. But their conscience tortures them.

Ultimately, Li Shiqing decides to stay and take a chance. She rushes to grab the pressure cooker, while Xiao Heyun holds down the woman, only to be stabbed and thrown aside. The woman pulls Li Shiqing back just before she can escape, stabbing her in the neck. Xiao Heyun shouts for help, but the passengers freeze in shock. Another opportunity slips away. Waking up again, Li Shiqing is terrified by the coldness of death and bursts into tears.

Xiao Heyun hugs her tightly to calm her and decides they should get off at the next stop. Standing by the exit, Li Shiqing changes her mind and decides to try one more time. She rushes for the pressure cooker while Xiao Heyun tackles the woman wielding a knife. This time, Xiao Heyun stabs the woman in the stomach. Covered in blood, he grabs Li Shiqing and runs. But the wounded woman uses her last strength to pull the pressure valve—the bus explodes again.

Episode 9 Recap

Neighbors rush toward an old garage with buckets of water. Lao Jiao leads the way, anxious. But when they arrive, they see a woman calmly cleaning up the water with a broom. She turns her head—it’s the same woman who planted the bomb in the pressure cooker. She thanks everyone for their help while remaining expressionless. Once back in the garage, her eyes are empty. After Xiao Heyun drags Li Shiqing away, the bus explodes again.

Surveillance cameras by the station record their actions, including Lao Jiao peeking out and becoming a person of interest. The police track their escape route and realize they’re headed toward Gangwu Xincun, a surveillance blind spot. Director Du orders Zhang Cheng to lead a team—one to arrest Xiao and Li, the other to investigate Lao Jiao. Jiang Feng and his colleague arrive at the garage where Lao Jiao once lived.

Only then does the landlord realize Lao Jiao is in trouble. While the police investigate, Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing use the complex terrain of Gangwu Xincun to hide in an upper residential area. At a hidden spot, Xiao Heyun suddenly vomits by a water basin. He washes off the blood as the horrific bus scene replays in his mind. Seeing Xiao Heyun pale and dazed, Li Shiqing knows empty reassurances won’t help.

Xiao Heyun never thought he would become a killer, and the fear of killing is something he will never forget no matter how many times they loop. But both know the top priority is avoiding the police. Li Shiqing gives a brief pep talk and pulls him to continue fleeing.

From the landlord, Jiang Feng learns that Lao Jiao once heroically helped put out a fire to earn a commendation bonus—it was that woman who caused the fire while messing around in the garage. Local officials also say residents heard an explosion before the fire. Jiang Feng finds out the woman’s name: Tao Yinghong. Jiang Feng reports the situation and arranges a police sweep of Tao Yinghong’s garage. Zhang Cheng continues to pursue Li and Xiao.

Xiao Heyun, not wanting to implicate Li Shiqing, runs off alone. But she refuses to abandon her only partner. They escape Gangwu Xincun on a small truck loaded with sculptures. The police track Xiao Heyun’s phone, and Zhang Cheng quickly closes in. Xiao Heyun throws the phone off the truck to avoid tracking. Still overwhelmed by emotions, he urges Li Shiqing to leave him. In response, she throws away her phone too, saying she’ll go wherever he goes.

When the truck reaches its destination, they discover it’s Lu Di’s secret hideout. Using the password Lu Di gave them in the previous loop, they enter and finally have a temporary safe place. Xiao Heyun washes off the blood and discovers a wound on his arm. Li Shiqing puts on an anime costume and goes to a nearby pharmacy to buy medicine and melatonin. On TV, news reports say both she and Xiao Heyun are now wanted fugitives.

Xiao Heyun also sees the bombing report on his tablet. As Li Shiqing enters, she realizes even this hideout is no longer safe. Through surveillance footage, Director Du deduces they hid in the small truck. The driver also recalls seeing Xiao Heyun’s bloodstained backpack in the truck bed. Zhang Cheng, guided by the driver and sanitation workers, storms Lu Di’s apartment with officers—only to find no one inside or on the balcony.

At that moment, Li Shiqing is on the balcony of a neighboring building, tending to Xiao Heyun’s wounds. Watching online videos labeling him a bomber and overanalyzing violent elements in his game, Xiao Heyun is full of mixed emotions. Li Shiqing tells him to ignore people’s self-righteous judgments. Holding melatonin, Xiao Heyun suddenly stands up and tells her to stay in standby mode and wait for him.

Episode 10 Recap

In the police station, the families of the victims who died on the bus sat in the lounge, weeping uncontrollably. Lu Di's father suddenly rushed out, saying his son was not dead. When Zhang Cheng came over, Lu Di's father explained that his son’s electronic device had always been linked to his phone, and he saw the tablet continue to move after leaving the comic city. This raised Zhang Cheng's suspicion. Xiao Heyun took Li Shiqing to his friend's house.

He admitted that his previous idea of using violence to fight violence was wrong and told his friend to remove him from the game design project to avoid implicating the studio. His friend trusted Xiao Heyun and advised him to turn himself in to the police and resolve his issues—they were still friends. Zhang Cheng traced Lu Di’s tablet to the friend's house but found no sign of Xiao Heyun.

Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing sat by the seaside—his last moments of freedom before turning himself in. Li Shiqing walked into the sea, trying to clear her head. Xiao Heyun went after her and pulled her back. The movement tugged at his wound, which deeply worried Li Shiqing. The two lonely souls embraced on the cold surface of the sea, comforting each other. Xiao Heyun carried the sleeping Li Shiqing into the surveillance area and turned himself in.

They both reentered standby mode. Wearing handcuffs and shackles, Xiao Heyun heard Li Shiqing calling to him and finally woke up on the bus. He gripped her hand tightly and calmed down. This time, they decided to evacuate the passengers. Disguised as police officers, they acted separately and persuaded the passengers to disembark one by one.

Using the excuse of a college startup event, they convinced the passengers to get off at the next stop, showing them a message on their phones warning that the woman had a knife and was carrying a bomb. The passengers believed them. But when they tried to inform the driver, Wang Xingde, he seemed indifferent. As the bus reached Yanjiang East Road Station, Li Shiqing pushed Lu Di—who was about to get on the bus—off.

As she watched passengers about to get off, Tao Yinghong realized something was wrong and detonated the bomb instantly. They returned to the bus again. This time, they decided to persuade Lao Jiao, who had helped in a previous loop, to assist Xiao Heyun in restraining Tao Yinghong. They would also ask Wang Xingde to stop the bus on the bridge and throw the bomb into the river. But Li Shiqing couldn't do both tasks alone—they needed another person’s help.

Lao Jiao, thinking that acting heroically could win him a reward to support his daughter's education, immediately agreed. When Lu Di boarded the bus, Xiao Heyun called out a long string of his nicknames, asking for help as a police officer. Though Lu Di didn’t believe Xiao Heyun was a cop, he was shocked that Xiao Heyun knew his name and secret, so he agreed to cooperate.

Li Shiqing approached Wang Xingde and informed him that Tao Yinghong had boarded the bus with a bomb. As the bus reached the bridge, Xiao Heyun and Lao Jiao moved in to restrain Tao Yinghong, while Lu Di took away the pressure cooker bomb. Li Shiqing seized the knife and threw it on the ground, explaining to the passengers that the police were handling a case. However, the bus didn’t stop on the bridge.

As the fight broke out behind him, Wang Xingde calmly glanced at his watch. Tao Yinghong, lying on the ground, shouted maniacally, cursing the passengers as executioners and calling Wang Xingde a coward. Wang Xingde finally stopped the bus and pulled the handbrake to lock the doors. Realizing time was running out, Xiao Heyun smashed the window and jumped out. Just as the old phone rang, he grabbed the pressure cooker—but it was too late.

After regaining consciousness, Li Shiqing recalled that she had once lost her wallet on the bus, and Wang Xingde had stopped the bus to help her retrieve it. He had refused her gratitude and even chatted about his daughter studying at Jiashi University. But when asked about her major and year, he coldly said she had already graduated and was working.

Li Shiqing ran up to him emotionally, and Wang Xingde quietly asked if she wanted to get off the bus. Her loud questioning naturally drew Tao Yinghong’s attention, and the bomb exploded again. The loop restarted. As Tao Yinghong boarded the bus carrying the bomb, Wang Xingde’s face showed a conflicted and hesitant expression. Tao Yinghong stared at him coldly and walked onto the bus without emotion.

Episode 11 Recap

President Yang, facing two reporters who had been waiting, had no choice but to step outside and call Wang Xingde again. What was originally a good deed of returning lost property had turned into a problem—Wang Xingde simply refused to show up. President Yang had to hold the banner himself to present Wang Xingde and deliberately stepped aside so the reporters could paste his photo into the frame.

Li Shiqing woke up first, but Xiao Heyun entered standby mode, his face filled with pain. When awakened, he looked exhausted but quickly pulled himself together. Li Shiqing had taken Wang Xingde’s bus many times and trusted him, but now learning that the driver was an accomplice left the two with no clue. Xiao Heyun decided to get off the bus first, analyze the situation, and then re-enter the loop. At 1:45, the bus exploded on the bridge.

Claiming to be student journalists, Li and Xiao went to the bus company to interview Wang Xingde and gather clues. Just as the company staff brought out Wang Xingde’s files, a colleague ran in to report the explosion. Li and Xiao seized the chance to check the files. Noticing the entry “transferred with spouse” under job changes, they guessed that Wang Xingde and Tao Yinghong were married. They went to the bus company dormitory.

Xiao Heyun intended to call a locksmith but coincidentally ran into Wang Xingde’s roommate. Posing as Wang Xingde’s nephew looking for the household register, he entered and searched for clues. Li Shiqing, pretending to be Xiao Heyun’s girlfriend, chatted with the roommate about meeting his relatives and inquired about the couple's situation. Xiao Heyun came out holding a phone with a broken screen found in Wang Xingde’s cabinet.

The roommate warned Li Shiqing to beware of Wang Xingde’s wife—she was mentally unstable. The two went to a convenience store, feeling their own investigation was limited and decided they needed to prepare a proper story for the police to get more clues. As witnesses, they arrived at the police station but offered suggestive clues in their statements, making Zhang Cheng suspicious.

He tested Xiao Heyun by asking him to mark the positions and characteristics of the bus passengers, which Xiao Heyun did without hesitation. Then Zhang Cheng handed him a blank sheet and asked him to draw a map from the police station entrance to the interrogation room. Relying on his exceptional spatial memory as a game designer, Xiao Heyun accurately sketched the layout of the station, slightly easing Zhang Cheng’s doubts.

But when it came time to identify photos of the deceased, Li Shiqing’s face suddenly became anxious and fearful. The experienced Zhang Cheng quickly recognized signs of survivor’s syndrome. Naturally, the police still needed to verify their claims, but this also gave them time to stay at the station and gather more useful information. Jiang Feng began a deep investigation into the backgrounds of Wang Xingde and Tao Yinghong.

Wang Xingde had once been a truck driver and insisted on driving the No. 45 bus after moving to Jialin City four years ago, repeatedly rejecting promotions. Tao Yinghong had been a chemistry teacher and later became a chemical quality inspector with extensive knowledge. Her computer contained records of chemical purchases. Meanwhile, in the lounge, Li Shiqing didn't want to waste time. They needed a way to stop the explosion. Xiao Heyun frowned in thought and softly comforted her that they still had a chance.

Episode 12 Recap

Faced with the highly suggestive statements from Li and Xiao, the police once suspected they were accomplices of Wang Xingde and his wife. Fortunately, Zhang Cheng was rational and clever, and decided to first investigate whether the four were connected. Zhang Cheng entered the lounge and confiscated their electronic devices, including the phone taken from Wang Xingde’s dorm. As he was about to leave, Li Shiqing called him back and asked if it was Tao Yinghong who made the bomb.

At the same time, the police confirmed there were no call records between the four, nor any overlap in their social circles. Li Shiqing anxiously tried to extract information about Tao Yinghong, but her behavior only deepened Zhang Cheng’s suspicions. The bus company staff, Wang Xingde’s roommate, and the locksmith all testified that Li and Xiao had impersonated identities and collected information without permission.

Li and Xiao switched tactics and confessed they had taken Wang Xingde’s phone and investigated on their own. They also cited Li Shiqing’s survivor’s syndrome to ease Zhang Cheng’s concerns. Xiao Heyun casually revealed that the explosion was set to happen at 1:45. Thanks to this lead, the police quickly identified the phone in Wang Xingde’s collection as belonging to his daughter, Wang Mengmeng.

Five years earlier, she had died on Route 45 after insisting on getting off in the middle of a bridge, where she was struck by a truck. But Li Shiqing clearly remembered that Wang Xingde had told her his daughter was studying at the university and already working. The last call from Wang Mengmeng’s phone was at 1:44 PM on May 13, five years ago—a call to her father that went unanswered.

That became her final message, as she was hit by the truck at 1:45 PM while stepping off the bus. Thanks to the clues provided by Li Shiqing and Xiao Heyun, the bus bombing case was solved in under eight hours. When Li Shiqing asked Zhang Cheng about the motive, he initially hesitated, as it wasn’t something police could casually disclose. But with Xiao Heyun acting like his girlfriend wouldn’t rest without answers, Zhang Cheng eventually told them everything.

As they were about to leave, Li Shiqing asked Zhang Cheng whether he would respond to an anonymous call claiming a bomb was on a bus. Zhang Cheng firmly answered yes—protecting citizens’ safety was their duty as police. Xiao Heyun stepped forward and quietly asked for Zhang Cheng’s phone number. Back in the time loop, Li Shiqing noticed that Xiao Heyun's nose was bleeding profusely.

Xiao Heyun had to admit that his body was getting weaker with each loop, suggesting the cycle might be limited for him. He reassured Li Shiqing and quickly wiped the blood away before sending Tao Yinghong’s photo to Zhang Cheng. Zhang Cheng received a call from a stranger affectionately calling him “Old Zhang,” and was asked to check a message. After reading the message, Zhang Cheng immediately led the police to deploy at Yanjiang West Road Station.

Seeing Li Shiqing in tears and worried about him, Xiao Heyun hugged her tightly to comfort and encourage her. The two used their old trick—causing a commotion on the bus by claiming there was a pervert—to delay the ride. Once the bus stopped, Xiao Heyun took the chance to sit behind Tao Yinghong, coordinating with the police.

As the explosion time neared, Wang Xingde stepped hard on the gas and drove straight toward the bridge, throwing the police at the station into chaos. Zhang Cheng led his team to catch up, and several police cars blocked the bus from moving further. Xiao Heyun shouted for Lao Jiao and the others to help restrain Tao Yinghong, but Wang Xingde locked the doors, determined to die with everyone.

At the critical moment, Xiao Heyun smashed the bus window again and pulled out the pressure cooker containing the bomb. Zhang Cheng threw his gun to a colleague and reached out to grab the bomb. He shouted for everyone to get out of the way and ran alone to the edge of the bridge. Just as he released the bomb, flames burst out with a thunderous explosion. Zhang Cheng collapsed, covered in injuries.

Episode 13 Recap

On Bus 45, Tao Yinghong looked at a girl in a skirt, silently walked up to her, and surprisingly asked whether she had ever been groped by a man or if a man had tried to assault her. Such questioning naturally frightened the girl, and in panic, she chose to call the police. The responding officers were helpless—this was the third time they had received reports of Tao Yinghong scaring people while conducting her own investigation.

But Tao Yinghong remained dazed, believing she couldn't rely on the police and needed to uncover the truth behind her daughter getting off the bus by herself. Xiao Heyun was taken to the hospital to get his arm injury bandaged. Due to excessive blood loss, he needed to be hospitalized for rest. Although the explosion was prevented, Xiao Heyun felt that something else must have happened after Wang Mengmeng's accident.

Li Shiqing looked up the news online about Wang Mengmeng’s accident on the river-crossing bridge and saw a flood of cruel, mocking comments. It’s not hard to imagine how Wang Xingde and his wife must have felt seeing such words. Master Zhu, the bus driver involved in the accident, was summoned to the police station for questioning. He was still deeply remorseful over the incident five years ago.

He recalled that Wang Mengmeng had kept mumbling about wanting to get off the bus, and when he refused, she even tried to grab the steering wheel. The accident had already cost him his job, and revisiting the painful memory overwhelmed him. Chief Du had no choice but to ask Officer Qin, who had handled the case back then.

She learned that Tao Yinghong never accepted the police’s conclusion that Wang Mengmeng wanted to get off because she had missed her stop. Even the final report was signed solely by Wang Xingde. What was strange, however, was that the couple never contested the decision afterward. In the old bus surveillance footage, Chief Du noticed that Wang Mengmeng looked toward the back of the bus before getting off, as if she had seen someone. This aroused her suspicion.

Jiang Feng sat dazed outside the operating room. Zhang Cheng's wife rushed in, panic-stricken, and everyone hoped to see Zhang Cheng walk out safely. However, what they got was the doctor’s sigh and shake of the head. Jiang Feng washed the wounds on his face with cold water, slapped himself hard, and hated himself for failing to save his mentor.

Devastated, Jiang Feng barged into Xiao Heyun’s hospital room to tell them Zhang Cheng had died and begged them to share everything they knew about the bombing case. A colleague quickly came in to pull Jiang Feng away, but the news of Zhang Cheng’s death left both Xiao and Li shaken and saddened. Chief Du arranged for officers to interrogate Tao Yinghong and Wang Xingde separately.

Tao Yinghong, with disheveled hair and erratic demeanor, told the police that she had coerced Wang Xingde. Her goal was to die together with him so they could reunite with their daughter. After saying this, Tao Yinghong suffered a breakdown and fainted from breathing difficulties. Wang Xingde remained silent during interrogation and only asked about his wife when Chief Du entered. He was furious about the vile online slander directed at his daughter.

His daughter had never done anything wrong, so why should she be insulted like that? To protect his wife, Wang Xingde took full responsibility for planning the explosion at Jialin. However, his guilty conscience made him mutter a soft apology. Five years ago, Wang Xingde, still a truck driver, had left his vehicle briefly to handle a task. His phone, left on the truck, kept ringing—it was his daughter Wang Mengmeng calling.

Soon after, he was summoned to the police station. Seeing his daughter’s belongings on the table and his wife sitting coldly in front of it, he collapsed to the ground. Tao Yinghong rejected both police mediation and compensation from the bus company. All she wanted was the truth behind why her daughter suddenly insisted on getting off the bus.

While washing her hands in a restroom, she overheard two men talking outside—one mentioned that there was a pervert on the bus who targeted young girls. That single sentence led Tao Yinghong to drag her husband onto Bus 45 to question passengers. When Tao Yinghong insisted on uncovering the “truth,” Wang Xingde tried to reason with her, pointing out that surveillance showed no one had entered the men's restroom. But Tao Yinghong covered her ears, unwilling to listen, silently walking the bridge where her daughter died, weeping without a sound.

Episode 14 Recap

While Wang Xingde was signing the agreement, Tao Yinghong suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous. During a lecture, she caught a student secretly using a phone and also saw the obscene comments on her daughter’s accident video. Wang Xingde came home carrying groceries, only to be confronted by Tao Yinghong playing their daughter’s ringtone, demanding to know why he hadn’t answered her call. Wracked with pain and guilt, she said they were both accomplices and both murderers.

Determined to uncover the truth, Wang Xingde proposed moving to Jialin. He applied for a job as a bus driver and specifically requested to drive Bus 45. Sadly, less than six months after their daughter’s death, the incident had already faded from public memory. Worried about his wife, Wang Xingde went to the old bus depot. Tao Yinghong, hair hanging loose, told him she had completed her experiment.

Wang Xingde urged her to let go of the past and visit their daughter’s grave with him. But Tao Yinghong could no longer turn back. She agreed to divorce him and let him leave Jialin—if only he would say the word. Li Shiqing still felt the matter wasn’t over. After discussing it with Xiao Heyun, they called their counselor to the hospital. The counselor arrived and told them about Wang Mengmeng’s accident five years ago.

Afterward, the couple never asked the school for anything or caused any trouble. Still, why they tried to die together with a bus full of people was a question the counselor felt should be taken to the police. Devastated by Zhang Cheng’s death, Jiang Feng arrived outside Xiao Heyun’s hospital room and overheard the conversation. Zhang Cheng’s death had cast a heavy shadow over the entire precinct, and suspicion toward Xiao and Li only grew.

But Chief Du remained calm and in control—she insisted they could not jump to conclusions. The news of Wang Mengmeng’s accident had caused a stir on the school’s forum at the time, and the school had ordered the posts removed. Jiang Feng told the counselor to contact the forum admin to restore the posts. Li Shiqing wanted to go along, citing how Zhang Cheng had believed in their report. She hoped Jiang Feng would trust her too.

The counselor took Jiang Feng and Li Shiqing to the school to review forum posts. Following Xiao Heyun’s instructions, the three discovered a post claiming Wang Mengmeng had acted strangely because she had been harassed on the bus. Tracing the location of the post, the counselor retrieved the records for Room 324 in Building 3, and Li Shiqing quickly found information on the girls who had lived there five years ago.

Hearing her colleagues discuss the Bus 45 explosion case, Liu Yao was shocked. But when the counselor, Li Shiqing, and Jiang Feng questioned her, she dodged the topic, pretending to be indifferent. She knew no one could protect her—if even a victim like Wang Mengmeng could be slandered and mocked, exposing herself would only make her a target. No one could help her. Hearing this, Jiang Feng promised her as a police officer that her identity would remain confidential.

With Li Shiqing’s gentle encouragement, Liu Yao finally let down her guard. She admitted she had accidentally taken a photo of a middle-aged man in glasses molesting Wang Mengmeng. But the man noticed her and kept looking back at her. Out of fear of retaliation, she never dared to go to the police.

Episode 15 (Ending) Recap

Five years ago, Liu Yao, then a student, was on the bus taking selfies with her phone when she inadvertently captured a middle-aged man in glasses molesting Wang Mengmeng. The man noticed her and kept glancing back. Frightened, Liu Yao got off early and called her mother. But her mother, worried about her being targeted while studying alone away from home, only told her not to report it and to avoid wearing revealing clothes.

That night, Liu Yao saw the vicious slander against Wang Mengmeng on the school forum and posted the message. But the overwhelming flood of malicious replies crushed her courage to speak out. Fortunately, she had backed up the photo on her phone and cloud storage all these years—perhaps hoping that one day, the truth would come to light. Xiao Heyun rinsed the blood from his mouth beside a sink. Meanwhile, Li Shiqing returned to the hospital after uncovering the truth.

Eager to plan their next move, she didn’t notice Xiao Heyun’s pale face and forlorn expression. Seeing the stronger and sharper Li Shiqing, Xiao Heyun told her that even if he could only accompany her this far, she had to break the cycle on her own. Finally understanding Xiao Heyun’s sadness, Li Shiqing anxiously wondered what they would do if the loop ended and they woke up with no memory of any of it.

Xiao Heyun smiled, saying he would definitely remember her. Standing up and reaching out his hand, he finally asked if she would be his girlfriend. The two, who had comforted and supported each other, held hands tightly and sealed their feelings with a passionate kiss. On the bus, Li Shiqing woke up and saw Xiao Heyun unconscious beside her. She forced herself to stay calm, sent an anonymous tip-off to Zhang Cheng, and got help from Lao Jiao.

Zhang Cheng led a police team to set up an ambush and kept in contact with Li Shiqing. When Lu Di boarded, she called out his name and asked him to help remove the bomb. As the bus reached the bridge, Li Shiqing shouted that she wanted to get off. Lao Jiao and others stepped in to stop Tao Yinghong, who had drawn a knife. Lu Di took the opportunity to remove the pressure cooker from under her feet.

But as the bus jolted violently, Tao Yinghong lunged at Lu Di and reached for the detonator. At that moment, a strong arm blocked her—it was Xiao Heyun! Another muscular man helped subdue Tao Yinghong. Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing shouted desperately at Wang Xingde to stop the bus. Surrounded by police cars, the bus finally stopped. Wang Xingde, clutching the bomb, threatened to die together with everyone.

Li Shiqing showed him a photo and said they had to live to ensure the man who hurt Wang Mengmeng would be punished. Wang Xingde’s grip on the bomb loosened. Seeing this, Zhang Cheng rushed forward, took the bomb, and ran toward the shore, throwing it into the sea. This time, the bomb exploded underwater. No one was hurt, and Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing finally broke free from the loop.

In the morning, Xiao Heyun woke in bed and, seeing everything as it was, joyfully messaged Li Shiqing. It was the day they were to be honored. The eight bus passengers were all commended for bravery and each received a 30,000 yuan reward. Lao Jiao looked proudly at his wife and daughter in the audience.

Meanwhile, the man who molested Wang Mengmeng five years ago, He Yingjun, now a father making breakfast for his daughter, never expected to be arrested by the police at work. Wang Xingde, holding his belongings, walked into prison. As he passed He Yingjun, now in handcuffs, a look of relief finally appeared on his face. Every passenger on that bus had their own family and life. They were all ordinary people working hard for their future.

Now, they could finally return to their ordinary lives. Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing laid a wreath at Wang Mengmeng’s grave and walked down the steps hand in hand—toward a new life that belonged to them.

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