The moment the electronic shackles snapped around his wrist, Lin Shen heard time rot.
A seven-day countdown, three life-or-death choices, and a group of masked judges.
Emergency physician Shen Zhao grips a bloodstained scalpel and discovers that her patient’s heartbeat is synchronized with the countdown. Cheng Jiuli, a hacker recently released from prison, smashes through the laboratory’s iron door and sees his sister, who died three years ago, lying inside a cultivation pod.
Here:
▶ Memories are poisonous puzzles: touching someone else’s past corrodes your own understanding.
▶ Your profession is a curse that keeps you alive: forensic pathologists can see through corpses’ lies, while programmers can rewrite the code of space.
▶ Every cycle accelerates death: the rate at which cracks spread across the church’s stained-glass windows is a countdown to the collapse of human nature.
“Survival is nothing more than pushing someone else into a rift in time.”
When Lin Shen discovers that all the evidence against him comes from the future, and Shen Zhao’s hemostat pierces a heart where patches of metallic rust are growing, they finally understand the cruelest rule of this trial:
‼️Every choice reshapes the past, and the true traitor is the version of yourself who survives seven days from now!‼️
