Su Yan is the youngest archives restorer at Jiangcheng Archives. His daily life involves working with piles of old papers that are rotten, insect-eaten, or burned by fire.
No one thought that these hands holding the hair brush could solve the most difficult old unsolved cases:
From the blistered household registration book, she picked out the blood-letter seeking help written in blood from twenty-seven years ago;
Burning only the edges of the poem, she spelled out the death code hidden in the rhymes of the deceased;
From the blurry old films of the Republic of China, she uncovered the truth about revenge that spanned three generations.
Paper doesn't lie, every trace is the unspoken last words of the deceased.
Lu Chen, the deputy criminal investigation team, initially sneered at her: Can the case be solved with a pile of scraps of paper?
Until a series of unsolved cases that had been silent for decades were solved one by one under Su Yan's hands.
From tit-for-tat to walking side by side, the tough detective became her most reliable support.
Everyone thought she just loved this unpopular profession. Only Su Yan knew it——
She keeps a house full of old files, just to find out the truth about her father's unjust death of "lost confidential files" ten years ago.
When the last top-secret file was recovered in her hands, what surfaced was not only a shocking crime spanning half a century, but also a figure who had been declared dead...
