I am Shen Yu, seventh-generation heir to Yubu Studio, specializing in the regrets bound to ancient objects.
I used blood glue to mend a crack in a Qing dynasty bronze mirror, and felt the drowning pain of the person inside it. On the back of the mirror, I also found a blood-seeping character: "Forget."
From then on, every precious artifact I repaired, from a bloodstained opera costume to a tattered escort banner and a self-playing guqin, told me that every wound and crack pointed to...
