With a lawyer’s letter, top history student Gu Chang’an inherits his grandfather’s antique shop, the Silent Studio. He thinks he’s come into a sudden fortune, only to discover the shop’s rule: after dark, don’t touch anything! At midnight, the door locks itself. A Republic-era hairpin suddenly tries to kill him, and every word in his grandfather’s letter of warning drips with blood: “Everything in this shop is alive!” A copper mirror that reflects the envy in people’s hearts, a warlord’s broken saber hungry for blood, an office chair that kills through eternal overtime... Behind every elegant, timeworn artifact lurks a “death memory program,” frozen in place. To stay alive, Gu Chang’an awakens the Spirit-Sight and is forced down a path of fighting objects with objects and using poison to fight poison, becoming a “Keeper of Things” who walks in the shadows of history. But a mysterious being who calls itself the “Player” has long since laid an inescapable trap. Every containment operation is nothing more than a desperate struggle on its chessboard. When the universe’s “eraser” begins to wipe things from existence and the first glimpse of his father’s fate emerges, Gu Chang’an realizes that what he is protecting is far more than this little antique shop...
