Shi Yan, PhD candidate at Seoul National University, believes in data-based information framework and verifiable facts. She does digital preservation of cultural heritage and thinks everything can be explained by models - until she meets Jiang Xun on the streets of Myeongdong.
Jiang Xun, a cultural relics blogger, is gifted with the ability to see the light in cultural relics. He can sense their emotions, memories and obsessions, and uses his lens to speak for those silent things.
But for the first time, he saw light in a living person - Shi Yan's eyes were golden, warm, and "righteous" like Duan Inkstone in the Song Dynasty.
"There is light in you, do you know it?"
She examined him with reason, and he approached her with intuition.
She verified everything he said, and he helped her fill in the gaps that data couldn't touch.
When the bullet marks on a statue of the Heavenly King of the Tang Dynasty were repaired, when the origin of a bronze Guanyin statue was revealed, when eighty years of waiting in a World War II labor concentration camp that was about to be demolished was discovered——
They found their missing half in each other:
She learned to see, and he learned to be seen.
