Murder in a Time Loop

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The Yuanshan family is haunted by a mysterious curse. They say that no head of the family can live past the age of forty-four.

Zhao Yuzhi co-wrote a mystery novel with a partner, and the book won an award. She was invited to a banquet at the Yuanshan estate. At first, everything went as usual, until the current head of the Yuanshan family died in front of everyone. He was only forty-four.

The police investigation revealed that the victim had been poisoned.

Later, while reviewing the case files, the police discovered that thirty years earlier, the previous head of the Yuanshan family had been murdered with the same poison at the same location. He had also died at the age of forty-four, and the killer's method had never been uncovered.

Even more bizarrely, the mystery novel that won Zhao Yuzhi an award was actually based on that murder from thirty years ago, and the partner who co-wrote it with her had mysteriously disappeared.

The cold case has resurfaced. What is the truth? And can Zhao Yuzhi clear herself of suspicion?

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On the first night of a seven-day cruise, Zhao Yuzhi received a strange note with the number "1" written on it in red paint.

She couldn't understand what the note meant.

Not until two murders took place on board one after another. Two passengers died in their own cabins, each with their right hand strangely clenched on the floor.

When the passengers moved the victims' right hands, they saw the numbers "4" and "3" written in blood on the floor.

Only then did Zhao Yuzhi understand. It was a death countdown.

She would be the final victim.

Theme: Justice will never be absent