The story of "The Twelfth Second" begins with a phone call with only the eleventh second, and ends with a confession buried in the twelfth second: "I want to find my husband. His name is Zhao Yichen, and he is a policeman of the Anti-drug Brigade of the Criminal Investigation Detachment. Can you tell him for me? " The voice came to an abrupt end, and the call lasted only eleven seconds, but it was the support of men for nine years.
He falls asleep listening to this recording almost every night, because the voice is his beloved wife-Hu Jiaying, and he is thinking about what her wife is going to say to him.
This novel is different from previous romance novels. The woman died, and the whole novel only lives in the memory of the man. She also lives in the heart of the man forever, although she is still alive. The man is a criminal policeman and has never given up looking for the missing woman for nine years. Until one day he received a phone call saying that his daughter had come and asked her to find her, or his daughter would die. It turned out that Hu Jiaying was pregnant for six months when she disappeared.
Later, he received another photo and an address. The picture shows his wife and a girl. He went to the address given by the mysterious man, where there really was a girl, a woman with similar faces and her boyfriend. It turns out that his wife also has a name called Han Xu. The woman like his wife is his wife's sister Xu Lian, and the eight-year-old girl is his daughter named Zhao Xishan.
However, she suffered from mental illness and aphasia because of something. The police speculated that the girl might have witnessed Hu Jiaying's death. The disappearance of his wife is very strange, and so is her death. She seems to be hiding something from him. He wanted to find out that his superior ordered him not to intervene in his wife's case, so he investigated it privately and slowly clarified the case.
This case involves many forces, including drug trafficking, drug trafficking, prostitution and government officials. After the treatment of aphasia, their child's condition improved and finally told the truth about Hu Jiaying's death.