Ancient book restorer Shang Zhaoyin took over an unnamed fragment. There is no title on the page, no preface and postscript, only a line of words that appears every time there is moisture, and then fades away in an instant: Mengxi is not recorded.
When he filled in the first person's name on the broken page, a real collection file lost its corresponding record out of thin air. In order to prevent the whole ancient book from continuing to "eat words", Shang Zhaoyin followed the ink marks of the countercurrent and walked into Runzhou in the third year of Yuanyou in the Northern Song Dynasty. He became a person who should not exist in the official books.
At this time, Shen Kuo retreated to Mengxi Garden, and a notebook that would later illuminate thousands of years had not yet been finalized; a seemingly ordinary warehouse fraud case was quietly peeling off river engineering diagrams, ephemeris manuscripts, medical prescriptions, various craftsmanship skills, and the names of countless ordinary people from the paper. Gu Tingshuang, who is guarding his father's old bookstore, firmly believes that history books can save one official, but cannot save the livelihood of a whole city out of thin air. The two started from the soaked warehouse records and searched for the truth between the back of the paper, the ink layer and the scratched-out names.
They gradually discovered that the so-called access to ancient books was not to rewrite history for the ancients, but to preserve the possibility of being seen for those who had lived, worked, and chosen.
