Haishi City, a steampunk cage shrouded in eternal polar night.
Time is currency, the heart is the clockwork, and stagnation is death.
The poor people at the lower levels were drained of their lifespan, the upper class dignitaries relied on mechanical prosthetics to live forever, and the entire city was firmly controlled by the huge Tianshu Clock.
When the pendulum begins to move strangely counterclockwise, the lifespan of the lower layer is lost crazily, and the filth of time breaks out from the shadows.
Chen Ye, a low-level ferryman, is actually the only surviving descendant of the clockkeeper.
He can control the flow of time: speed up, slow down, or even stop.
In order to survive and to uncover a centuries-old scam, he and the genius mechanic Su Qian embarked on a retrograde road to subvert the world.
The Guild of Clockmakers wants to mechanize the city's consciousness and achieve eternal stillness;
What he wants to do is to smash the Tianshu Bell and let the sunlight shine into this man-eating city again.
The pendulum moves backwards, and the long night is drawing to a close.
This time, time is defined by me!
