The ancestral Pisces jade pendant was shattered in my hands.
Before I could figure out how to stick it back on, the Qin bamboo slips in the museum began to fade, and the words in the history books disappeared line by line.
Someone told me: The jade in your home is the load-bearing wall of history.
Now that the wall is down, I have to go in and fix it.
The first era to go to is the Qin Dynasty.
——There are the fires of burning books and entrapping Confucians, the secrets of Lishan Mausoleum, and an old friend who is waiting for me in prison to eat wontons when I go back.
