Lin Zhi dressed up as the daughter of a small official in the Yongle Dynasty. She originally thought that the script of life was just the chores of the house, getting married and having children, and she happened to watch the completion of the Yongle ceremony.
Until she found a piece of reminder paper written "Ying Huo Shou Xin" in the secret room of her father's study. In order to protect her family, she was forced to step into the fog and carefully survive in the gaps between ancient books and the court.
She thought it was just a conspiracy against her father.
Until one snowy night, when she was taking shelter from the rain at a street corner tea stall, the skinny old man opposite suddenly pushed an old and yellowed silk book.
She lowered her head, and on the cover of the silk volume was the title of a long-lost forbidden book - "Pushing Back Picture".
The old Taoist's voice was as light as falling snow, but every word was shocking:
"Some people are using it to tamper with history, but I want to use it to... Change the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty."
"And you are the only person in the hexagram who can write."
From then on, she hid in the boudoir, the history museum and the edge of the sea map, using ink as a needle, quietly suturing the dynasty's quietly broken destiny thread.
What she has made up for is the erased record of natural disasters; what she has added is a safe haven for the voyage fleet; what she has buried is a chapter of elementary education that can be read by women in the next hundred years.
Many years later, historians recorded that Yongle was prosperous, with good weather, clear seas and rivers, and prosperous culture and education.
No one knew that at the tea stall in the snow that night, someone handed out a forbidden book, and someone took a silent pen.
The chess game of the national destiny has been quietly settled before the ink is dry.
