Twin Memories: Heartbeats in Old Films of the Republic of China

When dark red blood oozes from the cracks in the ancient paintings of the Republic of China, the dust-covered historical memories begin to awaken. Cultural relics restorer Lu Chenzhou took over a painting of "Ladies in the Rain Alley" signed "Yanbai", but during the restoration process, a mysterious resonance was triggered - he had a splitting headache. The hail of bullets in 1943, the Japanese cherry blossom logo, and the crushed drawings of painter Shen Yanbai penetrated his consciousness like bullets. He discovered that he could read memory fragments in ancient artifacts. What was even more terrifying was that the hair accessories of the ladies in the painting and the folds of the umbrellas actually concealed Morse codes and escape routes. And all of this is closely related to the conspiracy of the modern cultural relics smuggling group "Xingyuan". Chizuruko's mechanical prosthetic eyes flashed with cold light, and the new leader's memory tampering technology tried to rewrite history. They tried to use the cultural relics dispute to provoke international conflicts and bury the truth of the plunder forever. Lu Chenzhou and his partner Lin Xubai combed through ancient paintings, bronzes, and Dunhuang murals, engaging in a life-and-death struggle between memory recall and reality pursuit. When the proposal for the "Convention on the Return of Lost Cultural Relics" caused shock in the United Nations, and when the space-time device under the Arctic ice was activated again, a battle to protect civilization spanning eighty years was using memory as a blade to split open the historical truth shrouded in fog. Cultural relics carry not only civilization, but also memories that cannot be forgotten. And they are the secret keepers wandering in the cracks of time.