The time displayed on your wrist tells you how long you have left to live. It ticks down second by second, and when it reaches zero, you die. Every purchase is also paid for with the time on your wrist, so you have to keep working to top it up.
Fu Shi was born with only thirty minutes on his wrist. His father held his tiny hand and transferred twenty-four hours to him, then went out and never returned, his own time having run out.
Fu Shi’s first love, Cheng Nianyuan, died one evening. He ran toward her with all his might, but her outstretched hand was only a few steps away. The numbers on his wrist mercilessly counted down to 00:00:00. Su Shunyan died in his arms while they were making love, the faint ticking of the clock on her wrist drowned out by their panting until it reached zero. Lu Yixing didn’t die when she left him. She swayed her hips as she walked toward a man with centuries left on his wrist… his third girlfriend.
Worse still, Fu Shi watched helplessly as his mother’s time also ran out, her life ending in an instant.
The air in the slums is thick with the anxiety of the “countdown.” Then an accident adds two hundred years to Fu Shi’s wrist, which had held only a few dozen hours…
Overnight, he becomes fabulously wealthy, and murderous threats close in. A mysterious woman helps Fu Shi escape his pursuers and enter the rich district… Could she be his fifth lover?
Why did the time on Fu Shi’s wrist nearly run out, leaving him on the brink of death?
Someone has tampered with the Time Bank, planting a global time-reset bug that threatens to end everyone’s life.
What can Fu Shi do?
Will the plants and animals from the Classic of Mountains and Seas appear on the planet of time?
Here, gold is worthless and used to pave roads; even the toilets are made of gold. The only thing no one dares waste is time, because time is life.
