Shen Shilan, the top arbiter of the Space-Time Management Bureau, was demoted to the Republic of China for violating the laws and releasing time travellers, and became the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.
He was wearing a cold jade mask to judge the world, but he met Xie Zhaolin, a dandy who claimed to be a "charlatan" - the man was leaning on the crime scene with a pipe in his mouth, and smiled and threw him a reversed sundial fragment: "Master Shen, this case must be solved with a method that will be used a hundred years later."
They work together to solve strange cases of cause and effect:
A gambling house owner burned himself to death to protect his illegitimate son, but the suicide note he left behind was stained with the blood of his enemies;
The cold-faced warlord sewed the heart into the body of his best friend, and what was beating in his chest were two pocket watches;
The brothel oiran pierced her throat with a gold hairpin, and her libretto was filled with prayers to her old enemy...
When the grain of star sand at the end of Xie Zhaolin's eyes spread to the side of his neck, Shen Shilan discovered:
This prodigal was originally the first-generation space-time criminal who was killed by himself a hundred years ago.
The system finally issued an oracle——
"Kill the paradox anchor and restart the timeline."
When Shen Shilan's sword pierced Xie Zhaolin's heart, the stars in the sky were flowing backwards.
He heard the dying man laughing and saying, "That bottle of water for rebirth you gave me back then... It was so painful."
A hundred years later, a gray-haired old man knocked on the door of the Time and Space Administration:
"I'm here to teach Mr. Shen... How to break through time."
Concept: Love solidified in amber is the only paradox that time cannot corrode