Timing Loom

Lin Yan never thought that a mistake he made when restoring cultural relics would drag him into a war that spans ancient and modern times. He became a tinker—chosen by the chronological loom to travel through the ages and possess the marginalized from history. His task is not to change major events, but to repair those seemingly insignificant but causal anchor points of civilization: a burned engraving, an unsent suicide note, a red rope tied by a daughter to her father's wrist. Every time he repaired it, the gold thread on his wrist turned gray. Losing my mother's voice, losing part of the color sense in my right eye, and losing my sense of direction - the price is burning my own existence. And when all seven golden threads turn gray, he will be permanently marked by the loom as a corruptor and become an enemy. The enemy calls himself a historian, and he believes in another set of logic: history is full of mistakes and suffering, and instead of retaining scars, it is better to rewrite a perfect utopia. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.