At 1:17 a.m., the digital clock on the workshop wall jumps forward a digit. It doesn't move. It jumps.
Only Lu Chi, the workshop's maintenance worker, notices. The way the clock jumps is exactly like the way the old watch on his wrist, which is always three minutes slow, changes.
Later, he learns that time hasn't broken. Someone is taking it away. Every morning at 3:07, a machine arrives to "collect" its goods, stealing a tiny piece of time from ordinary people: the taste of a lunch, the sound of a cicada, a moment from yesterday.
There are thirteen registered "time-touched" people in the entire city.
Lu Chi grips his screwdriver. He's repaired equipment for seven years. There's nothing he can't fix.
What about time?
That can be fixed, too.
Lu Chi begins investigating, only to discover that every clue points to someone who shouldn't exist.
If memories can be altered, the past erased, and even time can lie...
then who can prove that you ever really lived?
This book is okay, it's quite good.