Three-Second Replay

Zhou Heng was once one of the province’s top forensic accountants. After uncovering a money-laundering network tied to illegal businesses, he was framed and stripped of his license. His wife remarried, and he fell on hard times, opening a grocery shop on an old street. In his mind is an old TV that can replay only the last three seconds of reality. It can’t show the future or read minds, but it can pinpoint the exact moment a document is switched. Starting with clearing a neighbor’s name over a 380,000-yuan IOU, he methodically exposes the web of falsified accounts connecting a shell construction-materials company and a cold-chain logistics firm, ultimately bringing the people who framed him to account. This is a modern supernatural suspense novel driven by hard-nosed bookkeeping, where every figure is scrutinized to the last cent.