On a rainy night on Shanghai's Bund, Lin Shen, an intern forensic pathologist, finds a bronze pocket watch engraved with an infinity symbol at the scene of a car crash. From that moment on, he is plunged into a bloody cycle of reincarnation. Forced to take part in deadly weddings across seven layers of spacetime, he finds that every case is an exquisitely crafted Mobius strip: a corpse in a mirrored hospital bearing a date in the future, roses growing backward aboard a quantum cruise ship, broken porcelain in an antique shop inscribed with memories from his own past life... When he discovers that his fiancee, Su Xia, is actually the original host of the Abyss Eye organization, and that the death countdowns of 217 cloned brides are synchronized with his heartbeat, a century-old conspiracy spanning time and space gradually comes to light.
Traveling between a warship from the 1937 Philadelphia Experiment and a particle collider in 2046, Lin Shen reaches the critical point where the error rate in his cycle exceeds 50%, and witnesses his body undergo quantum collapse. Images of a laboratory flashing repeatedly in his memory chip reveal a cruel truth: he is the first immortal test subject to break through the four-dimensional barrier, while every version of Su Xia across all of spacetime is merely a memory decoy planted by an observer. When the bronze pocket watch is fitted into the core of the hypercube beneath the Bund, the moment of choice arrives: restart the world and erase all the clones, or remain trapped forever in the abyss of time to protect a false wedding?
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Title Analysis:
"Abyss of Time" evokes the depths of time and reflects the quantum-state dilemma of overlapping spacetime at the heart of the story. The "infinity" symbol represents both endless cycles of reincarnation and the shape of the key hidden in the bronze pocket watch. It also symbolizes the closed loop of fate that binds Lin Shen and Su Xia together for eternity.
