When the neon words turned into juice and flowed down from the billboards, and when the vicious beasts of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" tore through the paper and broke into the streets, Chen Yan discovered that the ancient book restoration shop left by his grandfather hid a shocking secret. As the last descendant of Butianlu's bloodline, he holds the ruler that can freeze time and space, traveling between the collapsing reality and the folded history.
This is a modern fantasy in which words have weight and concepts contain power. When someone begins to extract the marrow of history, and when the basic rhythm of words collapses one after another, only a repairman can sew up the eroded warp and weft of civilization. From repairing the crying "Ci Hai" to hunting down memory reapers, from salvaging the truth from the folds of time to rewriting the tampered definitions of words - Chen Yan gradually understood that the most dangerous thing was never the beast that burst out of the paper, but the people's hearts that were quietly deteriorating.
