The mirror difference started in the bathroom at 4:47 in the morning - Lin Wan was brushing his teeth when he saw himself blinking prematurely in the mirror. The 0.3 Second time difference was like a rusty needle, piercing the tightrope of "reality". From the initial self-comfort to experimenting with laser pointers and high-speed video, she watched the time difference climb from 0.3 Seconds to 1.4 Seconds: the image in the mirror clapped in advance, predicted the light source, even bled for her, rehearsed suicide, like a precise ghost, eating her "future".
She buckled down reflective objects, nailed the bathroom door, and fled with her suitcase, but she saw herself in the early reflection in every reflection - the afterimage of the convenience store glass door, the pupils of the taxi rearview mirror, the blood stains on the hotel floor mirror, and even the city curtain wall became a periscope that refracted jet lag. It wasn't until the confrontation on the rooftop that she realized that the replacement had already been completed: it was not a body swap, but a deprivation of the "right to be present." She became a delayed substitute for the person in the mirror, and had to live out the 1.4 Seconds of vacuum for the other person.
In the end, the time difference returned to zero, but it folded into a microscopic gap of 0.0001 Mm—a boundary smaller than dust and larger than life and death. Lin Wan lay in the darkness, listening to herself
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
