Time Rental Shop

New works are released, welcome everyone to the "Time Rental Shop" There is a strange shop hidden at the end of an alley in the old city. The words "Time Rental Shop" on the wooden signboard have faded, but they always light up at midnight. What is rented here is not old things, but time - with one hour of life, you can go back to the rainy night in 1998 and recover an unspoken apology; with three days of life, you can see future birthdays in advance and avoid that fatal car accident. Lin Mo, a newly unemployed social worker, took over the store after his grandfather died unexpectedly. The strange transaction records in the ledger, the old clock that always stops at 3:17, the aunt who rents the cheongsam at the same time repeatedly, the mysterious boy who can tell his dreams... Countless clues are entangled in a web, pointing to the truth of Grandpa's disappearance - three hundred years ago, someone borrowed his life from the "time creditor", and the price of repayment was to use this store to harvest more people's time. When Lin Mo violated the rules and opened the time crack for the first time, he saw his "other self" trading with the man in gray robe inside; when the rented future began to collapse, and "time mildew" grew on the tenant's body; when the cracks in the clock oozed black mucus, and the eyes behind the pendulum slowly opened... Only then did he understand: the so-called lease is just a trap set by the creditor, and he has been the "repayment certificate" mortgaged by his grandfather to time since birth. The cheongsam aunt renewed her lease for the seventh time on a rainy night in 1998. What was she hiding? Why is the bell-shaped mark on the mysterious boy's forehead exactly the same as the illustration in his grandfather's notebook? When the clock strikes 3:17, are the strange old items on the shelves from...