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

"What do they want my father to do?" Wendy asked impatiently.

"...help them find a group of people," said Zhang Heng, whose expression became a little weird all of a sudden.

"More than a month ago, there was a robbery in Shining Silver Town. A group of masked men robbed a bank and looted forty kilograms of gold. However, few people knew that they also took something that they are not supposed to take. That thing belongs to the Cook.

"Cook wants your father to help him find that thing, but he seems to have other plans too," Zhang Heng said.

"But... the timeline does not match. As far as I know, the one-armed man came to Lincoln County very early and lived next to our house..." Wendy frowned, "...wait; you're saying that the Cook has been watching my father all these years?"

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