In the forgotten rift, Xuanlan walked alone. He is a relic stitcher who specializes in repairing the fragments of myths that were born broken - but these legends are not willing to be repaired. They scream, deform, and devour each other in the night. Xuanlan's motivation stems from a bizarre disappearance when he was young: he was swallowed by a stone monument that grew on its own, and witnessed the absurd universe where everything in the monument was upside down. Now, the ancient legends deep in the ruins have begun to erode reality. Fish fins grow on the roofs of cities, clocks bite time with gears, and people's dreams are filled with talking tombstones.
Xuan Lan must decide whether to continue tinkering with these stories that resist repair, or allow the world to be completely overwhelmed by grotesque fables. The conflict is: every time a legend is completed, he himself becomes more weird and gradually loses the boundaries of being a "human". The novel uses absurd and irrational logic to drive plot development. The highlight lies in the seamless dislocation of ruins and reality, the annexation of characters and myths, and the philosophical discussion of "forgetting and restoration." In this world, ancient legends are not static history, but living monsters, waiting to devour the next person who tells them.
