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When fictional murders become reality, the truth becomes nothing more than a carefully choreographed monologue.

When the gears of the antique clock begin to rotate in reverse, the sins hidden in the folds of time wake up one after another. Lin Shen, a professor of criminal psychology, has a special ability-he can smell the smell of mechanical oil remaining in the memories of the deceased. In his eyes, the antique clocks, pocket watches and music boxes that were entangled at the murder scene were instruments of torture engraved with evil clockwork. There is a secret chamber of poisonous needles hidden under the broken enamel dial. The amplitude of the brass pendulum calculates the trajectory of the corpse's fall. Even the beating heart in the chest of the deceased may be a clockwork bomb counting down. From the serial deaths in the clock tower during the Republic of China to the steampunk-themed perpetual train tragedy, every perfect crime scene constructed with precision machinery is waiting for the watchmaker who can crack the code of time. But Lin Shen never knew that the parts of the killing device that he had dismantled by his own hands were being automatically reassembled in a dark showroom. When the twelfth gear returns to its position, the clock that killed his father seven years ago will ring the death bell again in front of his eyes.