An ancient piece of paper refused water.
When Cen Zhaowei, an ancient book restorer, took over the Song Dynasty's fragmentary copy of "Xining River Embankment Record", he found that the Caocun Cao breach recorded in the book was one night shorter than the official history, and there were also 372 fewer people. What's even more strange is that there will be a knock on the door at midnight from the broken pages, and the mud at the edge of the book will always carry the fishy smell of the Yellow River.
She used a drop of healing water as a door to enter Chanzhou, where Xining had lived for ten years. The sound of the river there was like that of an animal, the plow workers risked their lives to hold down the embankment, and the boat households were without registration. However, the officials wrote in advance who should live and who should die in a river work record destined to be submitted to the court.
Every time Cen Zhaowei adds something to the nameless person, the reality will lose a piece of memory exchanged with him; every time he brings back a page of truth, someone is completely erased from the book. After working side by side with Xi Yanzhou, a river worker who kept secret account books, she realized that what was missing from the fragments was never just a page, but a section of the mountains and rivers that had been cut off by the power.
The Yellow River is about to reach its end, and the history books have been written. She wants to rescue those who should not be forgotten in the unchangeable history.
