Introduction to "Rusty Door Number and Bronze Bell"
Behind the rust-colored door number of No. 302 Anfuli lies a secret that time has forgotten.
Journalist Jian Mingyue moved into this shared apartment to investigate the "suicide" of female star Jiang Wanqing. However, on the first day she moved in, she encountered a strange retrospective clock - the brass pendulum always stopped at 3:17, and the black liquid oozing from the cracks on the clock face was called "the pus of time" by her roommate Lu Jianing. This mysterious girl wearing a bronze bell has the same butterfly scar as Jiang Wanqing tied on a red rope on her ankle, and there are sharp daggers hidden under the silver-gray nail polish on her fingertips.
When the retrospect clock exploded and the watchmaker's eyeball embedded in the pendulum was revealed, Jian Mingyue realized that this building was the lair of the "timekeepers". They used pocket watches to seal the obsession of the souls of the dead, but they were hunted down by the "time stealers" - the man with the gear whirlpool embedded in his left eye. Not only did he force Jiang Wanqing to death, but he also had a twisted father-daughter bond with Lu Jianing.
From the Chen Kee Watch Shop in 1937 to the air-raid shelter ward in 1945, Jian Mingyue and Lu Jianing traveled through the fragments of time. Each bronze bell is a key to the past, and each butterfly scar is an inescapable contract. When the time-stealer's birdcage collects the last ray of soul, they must decide before three-seventeen whether to break the cycle or become a new prisoner of time.
The rust-colored house number trembles in the autumn wind, and the buzzing of the bronze bell hides all the unspoken regrets - the mother's death ward, the clock shop on a snowy night, and the arc of the rooftop's fall will eventually spell out a complete destiny in the overlapping shadows.
