Shen Shi, a photography graduate, applied for a job for three months and received 37 rejection letters.
Just when he thought his life had hit rock bottom, the old seagull camera left by his father suddenly lit up - it sent him an invitation to join, from an organization he had never heard of: the West City Time Administration Branch.
"Rejection is invalid." The other party said, "You have entered the pre-admission process."
He was dragged into an office filled with balls of wool and met the director, Aunt Bai, who was always knitting sweaters, and the ace investigator Lu Shiguang, who wore a windbreaker, had a poisonous tongue and was mysterious. He was told that time in the world is not always smooth. It can be stolen, knotted, and whirlpooled, and his job is to "fix it."
The salary is very high, and the five insurances and one housing fund are complete, but there is a small price -
Wages are settled on a "memory" basis.
Every time he completes a task, he will receive a memory share; he can also advance his salary, but he must use his existing memory as collateral. At first, he only forgot small things like "what he had for breakfast today." But as the tasks became more and more dangerous and the advances increased, he began to forget the faces of his friends, the four years of college, and the last words his father said before his death...
His partner, Lu Shiguang, lost an investigator during the mission three years ago and his whereabouts are still unknown.
The three days of missing from Chengxi Middle School, the year of 1999 that was stagnant in the depths of the old street, and his first love being auctioned on the memory black market - the camera in Shen Shi's hand can capture the "decisive moment" and reveal the most critical nodes in everyone's time. But he soon discovered that every time the camera was used, a piece of his own memory would disappear forever.
When the case gradually pointed to the truth of the accident three years ago, Shen Shi had to face a cruel choice:
Protect other people's time, or keep your own memories?
——Once you forget some things, you don't even have the right to regret them.
Concept: All time is another way of saying goodbye