Long Exposure: Blank Negative

At the graduation photography exhibit, every portrait Shen Chang had taken showed people with their eyes closed. But the thirty-seventh photo was one he had never taken: in the image, a girl in a white dress was slipping a card into his viewfinder.

The girl's name was Jiang Mian. She existed only in the red light of the darkroom, a person brought into focus from Shen Chang's regrets. The closer she got to him, the more of his memories he lost.

In this world, photographs can steal time, the darkroom is a battlefield, and aperture, shutter speed, and ISO are combat parameters. Sealed inside Shen Chang is the world's last "Primordial Negative."

As war breaks out between the Darkroom and the Negative Alliance, Shen Chang uncovers the truth step by step: his father killed his mother, his mother never left, and the entire universe is nothing more than a long exposure taken by his future self.

He can photograph things that haven't happened yet, but he'll never capture Jiang Mian's face straight on.

Because when the shutter falls, she will become light.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.