Is there something you never managed to say, something buried deep in your heart until it grew into a nightmare?
Lu Chen has one. A licensed Class One Constructor with years of experience, he carries a secret from a construction-site collapse ten years ago. His partner, Chen Mo, died on the spot, and Lu Chen is the only one who knows the truth. When torrential rain tears down the wall of an old house, a mysterious Echo Pawnshop appears out of nowhere and offers him a way to escape: pawn an apology left unsaid, and reality can be rewritten; pawn a truth kept hidden, and guilt can be erased.
But he never expected that trading voices for objects would come at the price of being consumed by his own voice. Whispers in his ears, distorted memories, a recreation of the collapse site: every eerie occurrence tears away another layer of his self-deception. The shopkeeper’s true identity, the ultimate truth behind the collapse, and the unpaid “voice debt” all lead through twist after twist to the most piercing question of all:
When lies take shape as voices, and guilt becomes an echo that comes to claim your life, do you dare to face the darkest secret in your heart?
