Silent Words and Frightened Scales

Lin Mo, an Internet cafe power leveling coach, never thought that the turning point in his life would be a rusty copper bell he picked up. On the eve of the skyrocketing rent, the takeaway trucks floating in the rainy alley, the riders with scales hidden under their hat brims, and the strange ringtone that suddenly rang, dragged him into a whirlpool that subverted common sense. The "Soul Bell" engraved with the words "Lin" and "Su" not only attracted the pursuit of the scale people in the shadow world, but also implicated his abandoned life experience - it turned out that he was the descendant of the "bell watcher" who had guarded the balance between the human world and the shadow world for generations. A strange text message guided him into the abandoned Wangchuan Alley, and Mrs. Chen from the clock shop revealed the crisis of the loosening of the time anchor. That afternoon in 1998 when everything was burned down, the disappearance of his grandmother, the conspiracy in the film world, and the double identity of the mysterious woman Su Qingci were all closely related to the bell in his hand. When the time rift opened, backward hands, pocket watches that could cry, and time insects that devoured spiritual veins came one after another. Lin Mo was forced to step into the scene of the 1998 fire. Mirror-scaled people, mixed-blood traitors, elders who concealed the truth... In the layers of fog, he gradually discovered that the so-called protection and betrayal may be just two sides of the same coin, and the pure spiritual vein flowing in his blood is the key to leveraging the two worlds. When the bell rings again, is it a prelude to redemption or the beginning of destruction?