The little-known life of Cheng Weiyuan, the "chief editor" of Dream of Red Mansions.
During the Qianlong period, Cheng Weiyuan, a bookseller in Liulichang, risked his life to find the ending of the thirty lost chapters of "The Story of the Stone". With his keen eye for detecting forgeries, he broke into the trap of fragments, forgeries and various forces. A commoner, with no money or power, vowed to spell out the complete look of that incomplete masterpiece. When only the last piece of the puzzle was missing from the book, he discovered that the real opponent was far more terrifying than imagined. This is a story about obsession, game and immortality: some people burn manuscripts, others protect books, but he chose to be the one who keeps the legend alive.
