The Clockmaker's Final Testimony

The story takes place in Shanghai in the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1936). At that time, there were many concessions in Shanghai, full of luxury and foreign influences, and foreign influences were intertwined. Under the surface, there were undercurrents surging. The "Watch Repair Street" in the old town is famous for its handmade clocks. The owner of the most prestigious "Timepiece Workshop", Shen Jingzhi, was a craftsman who was proficient in restoring antique clocks. However, he was found dead in the workshop on a rainy night in a bizarre manner - he was fixed in front of an 18th-century French clock that he had restored. The watch on his wrist stopped at 3:07 in the morning, but the hands of the clock pointed in the opposite direction. The doors and windows at the scene were locked, and there were no signs of a fight. The police initially determined it to be suicide. However, Shen Jingzhi's apprentice Lin Mo firmly believed that his master committed suicide, so he turned to Lu Yan, who was suspended from the police force for a "miss" and turned to be a private detective.