Before All Things Lose Weight
At 3:17 a.m., every object in Linlan City begins gaining weight according to the secrets concealed by the person who considers it theirs. Mover Lin Ye has an even stranger gift: by touching an affected object, he can witness the moment its secret was born. A wedding ring heavy enough to crush an elevator leads him through an extortion plot, a corporate fraud, and into the sights of both the criminal underworld and a secretive municipal bureau. Then an immovable empty suitcase appears. It recognizes as its owner Lin Ye—before he was born. To keep the city from being crushed beneath its hidden truths, Lin must discover who he really is and who smuggled his future into the world.
Synopsis
At 3:17 a.m., every object in Linlan City begins gaining weight according to the secrets concealed by the person who considers it theirs. Mover Lin Ye has an even stranger gift: by touching an affected object, he can witness the moment its secret was born. A wedding ring heavy enough to crush an elevator leads him through an extortion plot, a corporate fraud, and into the sights of both the criminal underworld and a secretive municipal bureau. Then an immovable empty suitcase appears. It recognizes as its owner Lin Ye—before he was born. To keep the city from being crushed beneath its hidden truths, Lin must discover who he really is and who smuggled his future into the world.