On a rainy night, archive restorer Lin Qiuyan found a name that had been scratched out repeatedly on a page of 2003 county annals proofs - Zhou Chunlan.
Someone wrote in red pen on the edge of the page:
Don't complete her name, she's been back three times.
Lin Qiuyan still made up for it.
That night, a woman who was soaked to the skin, wearing an old-style factory uniform, and whose age stopped at twenty-two years old, appeared at the door of the archives, and asked about Lin Xueqing, who had been missing for twenty-three years.
At the same time, Lin Qiuyan's familiar aunt Shen Lan began to loosen from reality: her grandmother insisted that she had moved south when she was nineteen years old, the county hospital could not find her resume, and her husband was no longer her husband. Only Lin Qiuyan remembered that woman who accompanied him when he grew up.
When a deleted name reappears, another woman's life has to give way.
But when both lives have been truly lived, who should stay? Who has the right to choose for them?
As the old case of Baishi River resurfaced, Lin Qiuyan discovered that in the flood that was written in the county annals as "fourteen people died, no missing persons", more than one name was deleted.
