In Shanghai in 1937, the daughter of the last Jinshi who came from Liulichang, Peking, was left in the study room to study by a traitorous spy who had graduated from the Japanese Military Academy. At first, they were bed partners who each wanted what they wanted, but later they discovered that in this chaotic world where everyone was acting, their acting failed - and it became real. With her life and death uncertain, he spent his whole life alone in an ancient shop in Kyoto holding a box of old books she left behind.
