The Bell Tower Keeper: Two Watches and the Gear Abyss

Come to China Literature's website to read more of my works! Under the scrap recycling bin in the old city, there is a forgotten century-old clock tower. Lin Ye, a high school student, never thought that the old pocket watch his grandfather stuffed into him before his death would be the key to unlocking the secret of the bell tower - at 23:59 at midnight, the third bell broke the silence, and he was involved in a battle to protect time that spanned twenty years. Deep in the bell tower, a headless shadow appears with light, revealing Grandpa's true identity: the "clockkeeper" passed down from generation to generation, and Lin Ye is the next successor. Twenty years ago, the mysterious "Time Eclipse" stole the core fragments of the bell tower, controlled the turbulent flow of time, and attempted to turn the old city into a time and space cage. Grandpa protected the bell tower, but his soul was injured by the eclipse of time and became a wandering spirit in the bell tower. The awakened gear blood mark on the wrist, the corrosion-breaking knife that can cut through the mist of time, the yellowed pages hiding the clockkeeper's diary... Lin Ye embarked on a journey to find the core fragments with two watches and a mission. The time anchor under the old locust tree, the mechanical trap in the century-old watch shop, and the truth about the past in the library's secret room are hidden dangers at every step; the pursuit of the Time Eclipse, the devouring of the turbulent flow of time, and the obsession of grandfather staying in the pocket watch make this guardianship battle more and more difficult. When the cracks in the bronze bell continued to expand, and when the day and night in the old city began to reverse, Lin Ye finally understood: the so-called punctuality is not only to protect the rotation of the gears of the clock tower, but also to protect the daily life of every ordinary person from being swallowed up by the torrent of time. When the two watches are combined into one, the gears return to their original positions. This appointment in the bell tower that spans life and death will finally usher in the answer that belongs to the timekeeper at the fourth bell.