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

Zhang Heng drove the van in pursuit of the tracker's signal.

Bai Qing was holding onto the car handle and finally asked a question that she wanted to ask for a long time, "When did you get your driver's license?"

"Oh, I don't have one," said Zhang Heng. "But it's okay, as long as I don't get caught by the police," he added after a pause.

Zhang Heng shortened the 40-minute journey to only about 20 minutes. He was, however, slowed down by a few traffic officers standing at several intersections along the way. About fifteen minutes ago, the tracker had stopped moving. Worried that Zhang Heng might track them down again, they should have headed to a different parking lot to swap cars.

After a while, the tracker hidden in the candy box started to move again and about ten minutes later, it stopped.

When she realized that the tracker had stopped moving, Bai Qing became really nervous. "Have we been found out?!"

Dillema