Xiao Daidzhao

Growing up with eccentric materialistic parents who left him in the care of his grandfather for a job overseas, Zhang Heng had learned to adapt and be unfettered by the oddities and challenges in life. But he would soon learn the baffling truth about the world he thought he knew when one day at midnight time froze and he found himself in a world so quiet and still it was deafening. That night, he discovered that he had 24 hours more than everybody else and thus, marked the beginning of his adventures. The mysteries surrounding his newfound ability only deepened when a strange old man claimed to have given Zhang Heng that ‘gift of time’ and recruited the young man to participate in a cryptic ‘life-changing’ game on his behalf. Little did Zhang Heng know that accepting those terms meant embroiling himself in many versions of reality and exposing himself to the hidden secrets of the world—a decision he could never undo.

48 Hours a Day

Yamada stormed into the dojo, only to spot the boy who pointed them in the wrong direction. He glared at the poor kid with the eyes of a tiger.

The boy turned as white as a sheet and hid behind Akane to avoid Yamada's death-stare.

The samurai ignored Zhang Heng and said to Akane, "This is great. That fight last night—you attacked me when I was drunk and insulted our Choshu warriors. We get to fight again today."

Yamada was as shrewd as ever. He spoke first, making sure to classify last night's ambush on a drunk man as foul-play as an excuse for his defeat. But he wasn't all that wrong. If he had not been so tipsy last night, he would not have lost to Akane, who was only wielding a wooden sword.

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