On the day my mother was critically ill, Fu Hanzhou handed me a black contract——
"For three years, you stay with me and I save your mother."
I signed the contract, moved into his manor, and became his caged bird.
He pampered me to the extreme - he customized restoration tools with my name engraved on them, stood guard at the door of the restoration room late at night, and spent 8 million to find an ancient piece of paper. But he is also crazy, so crazy that if I look at other men one more time, he will transfer them away; when I want to escape, he will tear up the ancient books I have been studying for three months.
"Your hands, your people, and your heart can only be mine."
I thought it was a prison, but later I found out that he was imprisoning himself——
When he was 7 years old, he was imprisoned in a dark room by his relatives for three years, with only ancient books to accompany him. And the way I repaired ancient books was the only light he saw in the darkness.
He said: "When you repair books, it seems like you are repairing the world. But my world has long been broken."
Then I finally escaped.
In a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, people hide their names, restore ancient books, and recruit apprentices to teach their skills.
He stayed outside the ancient book library for a hundred days, getting exposed to the rain, getting injured, and breaking his ribs, just to hand me a repair formula.
"I don't ask for your forgiveness, I just ask that you let me look at you."
Until Lin Ruoyao escaped from prison, stole my newly repaired copy, and destroyed my repair tools——
He stood in front of me and the bullet penetrated his chest.
Before he passed out, he held my hand: "The book... Must be found... It is your hard work..."
At that moment I knew that this man had been my life for a long time.
