Programmer Lin He’s life came to an abrupt halt in middle age. Losing his job and facing his daughter's serious illness drove him back to a small town, where he looked for a way to make ends meet in his grandfather's abandoned clock shop. From writing code to repairing gears, from earning a million a year to worrying over a few dozen yuan. Everyone laughed at me, and even I began to doubt myself. Then the dusty old watch started ticking crisply again in my hands. They said I repaired clocks. Only later did I realize I was repairing countless people's shattered memories, and my own life, which had stopped ticking.
