While sorting through his grandfather's belongings, Wang Alei discovers an ancient bronze mirror covered in carvings. The moment his fingertip touches it, a flash of blinding light transports him to the old part of the city twenty years in the past. Everything here is both familiar and strange. The streets he knows now have red-lacquered gates he has never seen before, the neighbor auntie's smile hides something sinister, and even his younger self stares at him with an unfamiliar gaze. Stranger still, in this timeline his grandfather, who should have died ten years ago, is alive and has undergone a drastic change in temperament. As Wang Alei tries to find a way back, one bizarre event after another unfolds. Vanishing pedestrians, the midnight chimes that ring again and again, and the cracks spreading across the mirror all hint that this timeline is collapsing. He must uncover the truth before the rift closes, but with every step closer, he discovers that his connection to this timeline runs far deeper than he imagined. And behind that ancient mirror, there seems to be a secret spanning two generations.
