Countdown to Seventy-One

When the bloody countdown appeared in the palm of his hand, nineteen-year-old Lin Xia finally saw the strange world hidden in the folds of modern cities. The melted human neck in the cafe, the bronze secret box hanging in the ancestral hall of the old house, the reverse-growing corpse in the hospital basement - every death notice leads to a deeper fog. After being forced to form an alliance with Gu Mingyuan, a forensic doctor whose identity is a mystery, she discovered that her "Eye of Destruction" was actually the key to the altar of longevity set by the Five Meridians of Xuanmen thousands of years ago. Traveling through the time and space of the charred corpses in the textile factory in 1983 and the decay of the future, they uncovered the chilling truth: the women who died young in the Lin family tree were actually the same person, Gu Mingyuan's dissected corpse was being resurrected in his memory, and the man in Taoist robes wandering in the cracks of time and space had the same bloody countdown beating on his neck as Lin Xia... When the last chalcedony in the bronze box was returned to its place and the bell rang on her 20th birthday, Lin Xia realized that the so-called ability to predict death was nothing more than a script that the immortal had repeated thousands of times.