Deep in Jiangning Old Street, there is a grocery store called "In Here".
The owner, Gu Yi, is a lazy young man who likes to lie on a rocking chair in the afternoon sunshine, with a pair of walnuts in his hand and a civet cat lying at his feet who can't wake up no matter how hard he sleeps.
Neighbors said that Gu Yi was a craftsman who could cut paper, knead dough figures, and mend broken old porcelain.
But no one knew that he was repairing more than just objects.
Paper-cutting awakens forgotten totems, shadow puppets bring to life generals from thousands of years ago, and that bamboo lantern illuminates the way to the underworld for wanderers returning home.
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This is a story about "recording" and "guarding".
When myths revive, demons come knocking, and modern civilization is in danger.
Gu Yi sighed, put down the tea cup in his hand, and picked up a carving knife.
"God said let there be light, so there was light in the world."
"I said there should be China, so——"
He blew the sawdust off the blade, and the lights of thousands of houses behind him suddenly lit up, and countless intangible cultural heritage skills turned into the Great Wall of Heroes.
"——Eternal romance, all in the palm of your hand."
