Shen Yan, an ancient book restorer from the Provincial Library, returned to a small town in the south of the Yangtze River for a funeral and took over the old bookstore left to him by his grandfather.
There were broken books piled to the ceiling in a room, and there was also a letter that Grandpa had not finished writing: "A Yan, repair these books and wait for their owners to come."
He originally wanted to move the store back to the provincial capital until he repaired his first moth-eaten Republic of China diary——
Hidden there is the life of an Anti-Japanese War communications soldier, and the promise that Grandpa has hidden for sixty years.
Only later did he learn that the shabby bookstore that his grandfather had guarded for forty years contained 127 national treasures that had been missing for seventy years, hiding the unspoken tenderness and integrity of our nation hidden in the pile of old papers.
Every old book is a time capsule.
Everyone who edits books is a star collector.
