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

"It's not enough that he destroys our entire species. In the past few months, he has been chasing and killing whatever we have left," the mysterious man said bitterly. "Thanks to him, my people have been becoming fewer and fewer. With the Pupae Tree gone, we can no longer reproduce in this world. He still refuses to give us the chance to spend our lives hidden among humans quietly. If this is the case, we will also kill all who are related to him and let him have a taste of loneliness."

Bai Qing had backed up all the way to the rear of the parking lot, and she had no more space left.

She looked around, spotted a fluorescent tube, and grabbed it from the trash can.

To Friendship and Memory