There Are Seventeen of Me on the List

In 2007, on the campus of Nanchuan University, a real-name submission from an anonymous contributor is posted on the Nanchuan Echo Forum. A countdown begins on Shen Wenzhen's QQ account: 64 hours, 17 anonymous users, one name revealed every four hours. The red ledger with their names is locked in a steel cabinet, its key resting against my collarbone, yet the names have leaked. And that "Shen Wenzhen" isn't me.

Shen Wenzhen, the forum administrator responsible for protecting the anonymous users' identities, becomes the leaker in everyone's eyes, because only she knows which numbers correspond to which real names.

More terrifying still, the QQ account impersonating Shen Wenzhen seems able to see everything happening in the editorial office.

Everyone is hiding something. Everyone has a reason.

The countdown continues.

Before the next name is revealed, Shen Wenzhen must find the person manipulating the list...