Rusty Time: the Pocket Watch Era

When 25-year-old quantum researcher Lin Ye opened his eyes during an experimental accident, he found that he was wearing a high school uniform and lying on the desk in the classroom in 2018. This was the third day after he "disappeared" at the age of seventeen. His classmate Chen Yang, who was supposed to die in a car accident five years later, was smiling and elbowing his waist.​ The hands of the rust-colored pocket watch engraved with "L·W" in his pocket always stop at 3:17 in the morning. A strange note warned him "Don't trust Chen Yang." The sudden appearance of a smaller version of the quantum resonance instrument in the old laboratory building, the mysterious girl Su Wan wearing a mask, and the truth about the "seventh time and space cycle" in her mouth drew Lin Ye into a time and space mystery that spanned seven years.​ The pursuit of the "Time Keeper" organization, the constantly collapsing timeline, the deliberately erased memory fragments, the time and space cracks hidden under the old laboratory building... Lin Ye gradually pieced together the truth: the seventeen-year-old himself and Su Wan had activated the resonance device to prevent the disaster, but accidentally caused time and space turbulence; and every time the cycle restarted, someone paid the price with their lives to protect the secret.​ The pocket watch is an anchor through time and space and a key to awakening memories. When Lin Ye repeatedly travels between the time and space between 2023 and 2018, he not only has to retrieve the covered up past, but also has to make a choice between "predetermined fate" and "changing fate against the will of heaven" - after all, this time, he doesn't want to lose anyone important again.​ This is an adventure about time, memory and redemption. Every turn of the needle may rewrite everyone's ending.