Chasing the Light, Recovering Old Memories

(The cover features a bronze mirror with flowing patterns. The blurb's words seep into the silk like blood.)

**Title**: "Gathering Old Reflections in the Light"

**Tags**: Powerful leads | Art crime × past and present lives | Rekindled love | Cybernetic prosthetics × traditional restoration

**Synopsis**:

Five years ago, at an archaeological dig, Jiang Lin smashed a Ru ware brush washer with his own hands

watching Lu Lin kneel among the shards to steal a Ming dynasty jade Buddha.

Five years later, beneath the cold blade of a top cultural relic restorer,

lies the broken mechanical prosthetic of a former racing driver.

On a rainy night, indigo pigment seeps from "Twin Steeds on a Snowy Ridge":

“This color...” Jiang Lin pressed a soldering iron to the crack in the titanium alloy. “It looks like your racing suit soaked in blood back then.”

Lu Lin suddenly grabbed him by the nape and pushed him toward the CT scanner:

Two Ming dynasty skeletons hidden inside the ancient painting matched their DNA by 99.8%.

When the coordinates of the coffin his sister had switched set off a prison sentence,

when a GPS chip emerged from the jade Buddha embedded in Lu Lin's chest

Jiang Lin bit his lip atop a bronze cauldron at an auction:

“The thirty-million-yuan kissing scene was fake... tying you up to atone was real.”

And memories of their past lives returned with the blood:

✦ Prince Consort Lu Lin gouged out his kneecap to make vermilion pigment

✦ Master Restorer Jiang Lin sealed the resentful energy with human blood

“So it turns out we...”

The DNA report curled in the flames.

“We've always been mad accomplices, stealing our own remains.”

**The ultimate question**:

> When the hum of prosthetic electricity becomes an echo of shattered knees in a past life

> When the restoration blade cuts into