Introduction to "The Clockmaker's Game":
Former detective Wang Haijun has long been accustomed to using his identity as a private detective to cover up the scars of the past, until the intercepted phone call from antique restorer Chen Jingshan dragged him back to the nightmare three years ago. Before he finished the sentence of "the secret that can subvert everything" on the phone, Chen Jingshan disappeared mysteriously, leaving only a brass badge engraved with precision gears in the dark room of the studio - exactly the same as the traces of half of the gears at the scene of the serial murders that frustrated him.
As the investigation deepens, the missing pocket watch from the Republic of China, the unsolved theft of a national treasure in 1927, and strange messages on encrypted forums gradually piece together the outline of the mysterious organization "The Watchmaker." They are like gears in the dark, controlling destiny in the name of "correction", and the investigation of Wang Haijun and his two young assistants is undoubtedly leveraging this precision-operating machine.
Threats come one after another, police files are inexplicably destroyed, the frosty voice on the anonymous phone call carries a death warning, and even the safety of people around you is included in the chess game. When the death of witnesses in the past formed a closed loop with the disappearance case in front of him, Wang Haijun finally understood that he had never walked out of that shadow - he was both a hunter and the prey that the "clockmaker" had already targeted. Is the pocket watch hiding clues to a stolen national treasure, or is it the core of an organization that can subvert everything? This race against time is destined to reveal all the truth that has been deliberately concealed in the sound of gears biting.
