When the bronze compass turns, the twenty-three minutes erased from human civilization's history begin to wail in the quantum dimension.
Forensic pathologist Lin Shuyue can read fragments of the dead's memories through hyperthymesia, yet she has never been able to recall the blank years of her life before age seven. When she dissects the body of the country's richest man, corroded by radioactive cesium, what she retrieves from his stomach is not an organ, but a bronze tooth carved with a Liangzhu divine emblem. This wisdom tooth from five thousand years ago turns out to be a perfect DNA match for the baby tooth in her missing-person case file.
