The Clockkeeper Who Defied Time

In this seemingly ordinary modern city, time does not flow evenly. Some people can glimpse its cracks and even briefly manipulate its course. Lin Nuo, a former esports player forced to retire due to injury, is now just an unremarkable delivery driver. Then, one stormy night, he witnesses a battle between extraordinary beings in an alley and has his organs shattered by the shockwave. As he teeters on the brink of death, his heart suddenly beats with the sound of meshing gears. Time stops for three seconds, wrenching him back from the edge of death.

The woman who saves him calls herself a "Keeper of the Clock." She belongs to a secret organization that has existed for a thousand years, dedicated to protecting the "Core of Time," which maintains the world's stability. The "Clockwork Heart" that has unexpectedly awakened inside Lin Nuo is precisely the key the Evernight organization is desperately searching for. Faced with Evernight members' bizarre ability to corrode time, pockets of space-time suddenly freezing across the city, and temporal turbulence in his body that could turn on him at any moment, this young man, accustomed to solving problems with a delivery driver's mindset, must learn to contend with time through one life-or-death crisis after another.

When he discovers that his father's disappearance is connected to an internal betrayal among the Keepers of the Clock, when his teammate Mo Qingshuang's pocket watch begins ticking backward, and when the countdown to the apocalyptic plan known as "Time Slot Zeroing" begins, Lin Nuo finally understands that reversing time has never been about saving anyone. It is a desperate gamble. This time, he will stake everything on "people," not "time."