In Shanghai, beneath a torrential downpour, a bronze city gate tower rises from the depths of the Huangpu River, with corpse cocoons dangling like wind chimes.
Eighteen-year-old Jiang Lin, a boy from an antique shop, tears the veil between the present and parallel worlds when he opens the bronze pocket watch his father left behind.
Dark golden markings awaken in his veins. The price is that every use of his supernatural power makes the countdown etched into his collarbone consume another piece of his life.
A man wearing a Nuo mask, who calls himself his “uncle,” brings terrible news: Jiang Lin’s father, Jiang Han, was once a traitor to the supernatural organization “Gate of the Deep Space.” The “Eye of Cangming” he stole ten years ago is the key that triggered the collapse of spacetime.
Then the mysterious girl Su Li arrives, stepping on raindrops that flow upstream
The matching bronze pendants around her neck and Jiang Lin’s conceal the childhood memories erased from both of them;
The bloodstained oil-paper umbrella in her hand reflects the “Celestial Rail System,” three hundred meters beneath the Deep Space headquarters;
The spirit markings spreading across her collarbone resonate with Jiang Lin’s power of eternal night, unleashing a devastating light.
When Jiang Lin discovers that Su Li is the daughter of the former leader of the hostile organization “Gui Xu,” when beads of blood seeping from his mother’s memorial portrait spell out the coordinates of his father’s laboratory,
when a prism floating in the storm reveals countless shattered parallel worlds
a web of lies and truths, with the fate of spacetime at stake, begins to unravel:
The truth behind his father’s “betrayal” ten years ago is that he personally drove the Eye of Cangming into his son’s spine;
The millennia-long blood feud between the two organizations is nothing more than the remnants of an experiment conducted by a higher-dimensional civilization;
and every time Jiang Lin and Su Li’s heartbeats fall into sync, the countdown to the collision of their worlds speeds up.
When eternal night falls, we are all sinners.
