Watchmaker's Whisper

Deep in Wutong Lane, a watch shop with its doors and windows locked from the inside has become a perfect secret room. Clockmaker Zhou Xiuyuan fell in a pool of blood with a knife in his chest. All the clocks in the store stopped at 14:40 at the same time. The murder weapon only had the fingerprints of the deceased, and there were no signs of struggle at the scene. The murderer seemed to have disappeared from the world. The only clues are the scratches on the deceased's fingertips, a peeled off copper watch back, and a piece of paper with the word "Man" and 14:40 written on it. History teacher Shen Man comes to search for his ancestral pocket watch day after day, and he quarrels with the deceased, but he has an unbreakable alibi. Distant nephew Zhou Mingxuan covets the property of the old store and secretly steals pocket watches and transforms them into wristwatches. The motive is clear and there are also perfect time witnesses. A stopped clock, a disappeared pocket watch, yellowed old photos, a notebook filled with secrets... All clues point to a buried past event many years ago and a woman named Manqing. When time becomes a lie, the secret room becomes a cover-up, everyone is lying. The real murderer has been hiding in the ticking whisper of the clock, waiting for the truth to be revealed at 14:40.