Echoes of Seven Days

Chen Mo, a precision watch repairer, receives a bizarre birthday cake and a warning card from his dead wife on the seventh night after her supposed death in a car accident. Soon afterward, Lin Hai, who claims to be the captain of the municipal criminal investigation squad, breaks in and presents irrefutable evidence that shatters Chen Mo's understanding of reality: laboratory surveillance footage shows that the person who pushed Lin Wei off the seventeenth-floor platform last night was none other than Chen Mo himself.

​During the life-or-death standoff and desperate escape that follow, Chen Mo discovers that the blood flowing from a wound on his left hand glows an eerie blue. The "old burn scar" beneath his left collarbone is actually a laser code identifying him as experimental subject ECHO-07. The truth is that the real Chen Mo died three years ago. He is merely the seventh memory-overwrite vessel cultivated by the brilliant scientist Lin Wei. The person who fell from the building last night was Subject 6, who had awakened and rebelled, while Lin Hai is the chief cleaner sent to cover up the illegal cloning experiments.

​Caught in a countdown loop set to close at 10:10, Chen Mo uses the miniature detonator hidden by Subject 6 in the inner compartment of a pocket watch to turn the tables and kill the cleaner in an explosion. Just as he thinks he can escape with the key card, Lin Wei's gentle, obsessive laughter rings out over the speakers. In the center of the collapsed peach filling of the birthday cake on the living room table lies half of a severed finger, still wearing a platinum wedding ring...