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

When subjected to tremendous pressure, one human would react differently from the other.

Some would wail, kneel, or beg for mercy, some put up the final fight to save themselves, whereas some would remain calm, looking for the opportune moment to escape their captor. Bai Qing felt like helpless prey caught in a spiderweb. She realized that she needed to escape immediately from this fake Zhang Heng. Once the victim ensnared by the web struggled, however, its body would inevitably touch the silk strings, the slightest of which would alarm the hunter at the other end.

And the most critical problem was that she did not know who else she could trust.

The waiter at the ramen restaurant? Or the driver in the cab?

Whose side were they on? Were they capable of saving her?

Bayberry and Ashtray