BāZì

Ren can read the markets through fate. Now he has read his own death - thirty days from now.

Born into a family of fortune-tellers, he trades on the readings of an antique brass watch passed down through generations. The money comes. So do the accidents around him. Out of options, he seeks out Théo, a French therapist whose clinical view of the mind leaves little room for destiny. What begins as a disagreement over what can be predicted becomes a question neither of them can dismiss - and the clock is running.

A life already read. / A debt still unpaid.

BāZì takes its name from 八字， the Eight Characters of Chinese destiny reading. In Ren's world, inherited knowledge meets modern finance, and the line between prediction, coincidence and consequence begins to blur. At the centre is an antique brass pocket watch marked by the Twelve Earthly Branches, its second hand keeping a time of its own. Ren believes his luck comes at a cost. Théo suspects the real cost lies somewhere else.