I Fix Broken Things, Yet Somehow Mend Everyone's Regrets

A gentle, healing tale of light supernatural abilities rooted in the everyday bustle of a modern city. It begins in an old repair shop tucked down an alley, one on the verge of demolition, and uses the distinctive premise that "repairing old things means mending regrets" to connect fragments of emotion scattered throughout the city. There are no world-shattering superpowers or easy, triumphant comebacks. From the very beginning, Lin Ye's "Echo Restoration" comes at a fixed cost: every time he repairs an old object steeped in someone's powerful longing, helps its owner finish a sentence left unspoken, or make a choice they once lacked the courage to take, he loses a memory of his own in equal measure. As he helps others come to terms with their past, he gradually pieces together the truth behind the mass disappearance of their parents' generation twenty years ago, using unremarkable old cassette tapes, a broken dance shoe, and a tin pencil case. In the end, he must make a choice between "bringing back his loved ones" and "protecting the ordinary lives of millions," and chooses the one filled with the most warmth.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.