Three Days in the Mirror

Name: Three Days in the Mirror
Author: Gray Rhino's Horn Layer

镜中三日

by Gray Rhino's Horn Layer (灰犀牛角质层)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 225k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery High-Concept
Updated: 11mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Shitian, a reclusive and taciturn librarian, has lived alone for years and suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The world is nonlinear, and time is trapped in countless "three-day loops."

One day, he wakes in an abandoned church. The air is sickly sweet, and his reflection moves a beat too late.

His phone says he has been here for three days, but he has no memory of it.

A silver bracelet is engraved with "See you in three days," and the outline of a corpse appears on the altar.

He gradually discovers that, after witnessing his father accidentally kill his mother as a child,

and then, through his silence, causing the death of a neighbor girl who tried to reveal the truth, he was dragged into the cycle by resentment.

The mirror is a passage, and his compulsions serve as anchors for his memories.

Each loop brings him closer to the truth while tearing open the wounds inside him.

The real horror is not ghosts or monsters, but the self he cannot bear to face.

He must use his wits to break the closed loop of obsession, confront his guilt, and end the cycle.

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