When the bronze begins to breathe, history becomes a lie."
Cultural relic restorer Lin Wan was born mute, but he can read memory fragments when touching ancient objects.
While repairing a blood mirror from the Tang Dynasty, she witnessed the patina turning into pulsating blood vessels, and black mucus oozing out from all the cultural relics she handled. Following the warning of the mysterious text message "2077.07.49", She was drawn into a different space made of bronze - time here was gnawed by rust, the heart of the mural maid was still beating, and her father, who had been missing for seven years, was waiting at the end of the countdown wearing a rusty silver ring.
To break the Etcher's death program, she must:
Use mute words to trigger the voiceprint lock of the Qin and Han underground palaces
Hunting for the bronze box that can tamper with memories in the Maze of Movable Types
Face to face with the mechanical female official who was buried in Wu Zetian's era
When the rust spots on the back of her hands spread to her heart, Lin Wan finally discovered the cruelest truth:
She is the humanoid artifact that has been etched for twenty-three years.
