[One heroine] [Mystery] She can see the tears in the strokes of written characters, yet she cannot heal the wounds in her own heart.
Xia Mengxi was once the brightest rising star in the world of ancient book restoration, until the Dunhuang accident three years ago. Her mentor vanished, her right hand was burned, and the industry shut her out. Now she runs Ink Traces Studio in a Jiangnan alley, making a living by restoring damaged manuscripts.
But when warm tearstains seep from a fragment of the Yongle Encyclopedia, every ancient book flips open by itself at midnight to the same portrait, and her phone receives a photo of her mentor captioned “Taken today”... she knows the calm is over.
Someone is altering history with the “Word-Eater Art,” and somehow her scar can sense the truth that has been erased.
Restore an ancient book, and revisit a forgotten era;
save a spirit born from a written character, and save herself as well.
“When dust shrouds the mountains and rivers, I shall brush it away with my own hands.”
This time, she will run no longer.
