The Shenji Paper Tie Shop in Jiangnan Paper Town is an existence that people keep secret - the wedding paper tie here is full of vitality and will never be customized for living people, and the red painted paper figures in the backyard are even more taboo.
On the day when 24-year-old Shen Qingyuan took over the shop, half of the lotus paper wedding dress left by her grandmother suddenly glowed red. The silver ring attached to the anonymous order turned out to be a relic from her grandmother when she disappeared. Immediately afterwards, the girl who had ordered the paper tie died mysteriously, and her fingernails were embedded in the fingers of the paper figurine; the townspeople reflected themselves in the paper wedding dress in the mirrors, children clutched paper candies and chanted "I want to be a bridesmaid," and fine paper stitches began to appear on Shen Qingyuan's wrist.
Archivist Lin Wanqiu came to the door with her best friend's death certificate. The two followed the yellowed paperweight map and saw the faces of those who had disappeared over the years hidden in the floating paper lotus lanterns at the end of the dark river glowing paper pulp white. Grandma's diary gradually revealed the truth: the great-aunt who set herself on fire during the Republic of China was still resentful and relied on stealing the "marriage wishes" of living people to survive. Every time a stitch of paper wedding dress was mended, a new sacrifice would be dragged into the world of paper wedding.
The bell rang on the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, and the paper man with red shoes and the paper man who looked like Su Yao approached step by step, and the stitches in Lin Wanqiu's heart were about to close. Shen Qingyuan held her grandma's silver scissors in her hands and finally understood the truth behind her grandma's voluntary risk--that she was using her obsession to exchange for her time to grow up. This time, what she wants to cut off is not the wedding dress, but the loneliness that has trapped her great aunt for hundreds of years.
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