On the day the company fired me, Chen Jin awakened the ability to freeze time, at the cost of an accelerated passage of life. He thought this was a reversal of fate, but he didn't know that he was just an out-of-control pawn in the company's "time core" plan. Former boss Lin Zhao waited silently, AI engineer Su Rui secretly sent a message, security director Han Xiao was pressing closer, and his intern Zhou Xiaoye was actually a living beacon monitoring him. When time starts to turn back, who is the real prisoner?