Mirror Erosion

Lin Yan, a wheelchair-using illustrator, rents Room 302 because it's cheap and gets plenty of sunlight, unaware that it conceals a bizarre curse stretching back ten years. The room is packed with old clocks, all frozen at 3:17 a.m. Their second hands are still, yet they make an even ticking sound, as if countless eyes are staring through the darkness. After he moves in, terrifying events unfold one after another: each night, an inexplicable feeling of being watched jolts him awake; a pocket watch bearing a distorted human face appears by itself in his illustrations and cannot be erased; dark red liquid, seemingly congealed blood, seeps through the glass face of the mantel clock. When all the clocks begin spinning backward wildly and a rusty pocket watch appears from nowhere to wrap around his wrist and sink into his flesh, Lin Yan finally learns the truth: the previous tenant, a clockmaker, left behind more than old belongings. He left a trap that devours souls, and anyone who lives here will eventually become part of the clocks. Trapped by a relentless curse of time and unable to move, can Lin Yan find the courage to break free of the clocks and escape alive from this nightmare that devours souls through the mirror?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.