A Love That Refused to End Time

Jonathan’s life changes on an ordinary morning.

He wakes up, still half-asleep, and realizes there is a woman lying beside him. She’s calm. Familiar. Too familiar. When Jonathan panics and demands to know who she is, she looks him straight in the eyes and says something impossible:

“I’m Sore. Your wife. I came from the future.”

At first, Jonathan thinks he’s dreaming—or being pranked. But Sore doesn’t laugh. She doesn’t beg. She simply says she’s here to fix his life before it’s too late.

Jonathan is a passionate photographer, obsessed with capturing the perfect shot. He sacrifices sleep, food, and his own health for his art. In one of the opening moments, he stands alone in the snow for hours, waiting for two bears to play—just to capture one perfect photograph.

Later, he meets his best friend Carlo at a bar. Carlo praises Jonathan’s talent but reminds him that raw brilliance isn’t enough. If Jonathan wants a solo exhibition, he needs a complete, meaningful collection.

Exhausted and drunk, Jonathan goes home. The next morning, Sore appears.

She knows things she shouldn’t. She predicts accidents seconds before they happen. She knows he forgot his wallet and phone. She warns him before he trips, before he crashes into people, before things go wrong—and every time Jonathan ignores her, disaster follows.

Still, he refuses to believe her.

Things spiral when Jonathan meets his girlfriend Elsa. Elsa wants stability, control, and a future built around her father’s wealth. She offers Jonathan a restaurant and a secure life—but photography is Jonathan’s dream, not managing someone else’s business.

When Sore suddenly walks into the restaurant and cheerfully introduces herself as Jonathan’s wife, Elsa explodes. Humiliated and furious, Elsa storms out. Once again, Sore predicts Jonathan will get hurt if he follows her—and once again, Jonathan ignores her and falls.

That’s when doubt turns into fear.

No one should be able to know this much.

Jonathan finally demands answers. Sore offers proof. She knows his mother’s full name, her family history, and the names of his siblings. She even reveals that he doesn’t have a younger sister—something no stranger could possibly know.

The final proof comes when Sore opens Jonathan’s secret locker in his studio and pulls out a photograph no one else has ever seen. She tells him exactly how and where he took it—and promises a curator named David will love it.

She’s right.

David is stunned. He immediately selects Jonathan’s work for an international exhibition. Watching from afar, Sore smiles—not as a stranger, but as someone who has already lived this victory with him.

Jonathan finally believes her.

From that moment on, Sore begins rebuilding his life. She destroys his cigarettes, pours out his alcohol, forces him into a healthy routine, and reshapes his days with discipline and care. Jonathan resists at first, but slowly, his life improves. His work sharpens. His health returns. And something deeper begins to grow between them.

But Sore refuses to cross a line.

She reminds him gently that they are not married yet. That in the original timeline, they meet at his sister’s wedding, fall in love naturally, and marry later. She insists everything must happen in the right order.

Jonathan, now deeply in love, agrees.

Then comes the truth.

One night, Jonathan sneaks out to smoke. Sore catches him—and breaks down. Through tears, she reveals what she’s been hiding: Jonathan dies just ten years after their marriage. A heart attack. Caused by stress, alcohol, and smoking.

Every time he fails to change, Sore’s body begins to break down. Blood drips from her nose. Time collapses.

And then—it resets.

Jonathan wakes up again.

He doesn’t remember her.

This is the horror of the story.

Sore is trapped in a time loop. Every time Jonathan fails to change, time rewinds to the same morning. She wakes up beside him. She introduces herself again. She relives the same love, the same pain, the same loss—over and over.

She has lived this loop countless times.

Sometimes Jonathan believes her quickly. Sometimes he calls the police. Sometimes he throws her out. Sometimes he secretly drinks. Every time he fails, Sore dies emotionally—and time resets again.

Eventually, Sore realizes something devastating.

She cannot save Jonathan by controlling him.

In one loop, she chooses not to approach him at all. Instead, she builds a new life for herself, working at a boutique owned by a kind man named Marco. For the first time, she learns to live without Jonathan.

But fate is cruel. Elsa and Jonathan walk into the boutique together, shopping for wedding clothes. Sore measures them in silence, her heart breaking.

Still, even this timeline collapses.

The loop resets again.

Finally, Sore changes her approach completely. She stops trying to fix Jonathan’s habits directly. Instead, she listens. She understands. She discovers the real source of his pain: his father.

Jonathan’s childhood was scarred by abandonment, anger, and neglect. Smoking and drinking were never the problem—they were symptoms.

When Sore gently urges Jonathan to confront his past, the truth spills out. And for the first time, Jonathan begins to heal.

But every time they get close to true change, time fights back. Sunsets happen earlier. The loop shortens. Sore bleeds sooner.

Until one day, Sore disappears completely.

Jonathan wakes up alone.

Strangely, though, something feels different. Lighter. He breaks up with Elsa. He focuses on his work. He visits his father—finally confronting the past and offering forgiveness.

And with that, Jonathan truly changes.

He quits smoking. He quits drinking. He heals.

Years later, Jonathan achieves his dream: a solo photography exhibition.

And then—she appears.

Sore walks into the gallery, a stranger in this timeline. She stops in front of a sunset photograph—the same moment Jonathan once captured during the loops. Though she has no memory, she feels drawn to it.

Jonathan approaches her. They talk. They connect.

When they shake hands, everything floods back.

The loops. The love. The sacrifice. The countless times Sore fought time itself to save him.

They remember everything.

Jonathan finally understands what she endured for him. Sore realizes her pain was not wasted.

They embrace—free at last from the cycle.

The loop is broken.

Love wins.

And the story ends not with time travel—but with choice, healing, and a future finally allowed to exist.