Unpaid debts are hidden in the rust of the copper scale, unsaid apologies are entangled in the snake pattern on the embroidered handkerchief, and the ashes of jealousy are stuck in the gears of the clock - the day when the copper scale was handed over according to his grandfather's will, Lin Yan became a collector of "sinful objects".
He took seven old things with him on the road that remembered his obsession: a bronze mirror with a chipped corner reflected the shadow that could not be waited for, a porcelain bowl with a cracked bottom that held resentment that could not be resolved, rusty scissors that left unhealed wounds, and finally a pen that ran out of ink, holding the hatred that would not be forgotten. From Lao Sheng Pu to the mental hospital, he met Wang Guilan, who was waiting for her husband with a tin box in her hands, and Su Wan, who was combing her hair in front of a bronze mirror. Their "crime" was just to live "remembering" instead of "being trapped".
On the top floor of the mental hospital, Gu Mingshan has been waiting for twenty years: "These things do not punish people, but teach you that greed can turn into cherishment, resentment can turn into caring, and hurt can turn into reconciliation."
When the seven items lit up with lotus light, Lin Yan finally understood: redemption never erases the past, but allows old things to remember warmth and shine into the future.
