The global catastrophe countdown: 365 days.
Every night at midnight, the phone of safety assessment engineer Cheng Ye displays the details of someone certain to die: their name, location, and time of death. Their chance of survival is zero.
He can save people in advance, but soon discovers that every life he saves brings the apocalypse forward by one day.
If he wants to save lives without pushing the whole world toward destruction, there is only one way: find the root cause of each disaster before it happens and eliminate it completely.
Out-of-control elevators, fires on overpasses, subway tunnels flooding, citywide blackouts… The list points to widening cracks throughout the city and leads to the truth about his father’s death, buried ten years ago.
When the second name on the list turns out to be emergency physician Zhou Jianwei, Cheng Ye has only eighteen hours left.
This time, he must wrestle someone from the grip of the list and wrestle the whole world back from the countdown.
