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 did not expect that Commodus would come to him so soon. Logically speaking, it would take at least two days for the report to reach the emperor after it was delivered. Meanwhile, Zhang Heng took a break. He brought the slave girl to wander around Rome.

They first went to Perfume Street.

The slave girl was a little curious. She saw Zhang Heng opening a bottle of perfume on the shelf and put it back after sniffing it. "Why did you put it back? Don't you like it?" the slave girl blinked her eyes and asked.

"Oh, no. I just needed a little whiff," he said, picking up a bottle and paying for it. He then tossed the bottle of perfume to the slave girl. "I'll give it to you."

"Really?" The slave girl took the perfume joyfully. While Zhang Heng was not paying attention to her, she opened it and applied the perfume to her hair.

Clint's Whisper