Shen Haoning is the organizer of the relics.
When others see relics, they only see the old things of the dead; what she sees are burnt testimonies, altered signatures, borrowed clothes, swallowed deeds, and names erased by documents.
After He Lanwei, the young lady of the Yongning Marquis Mansion, "died" of illness, the whole family was anxious to burn her remains, take them out of the coffin, and leave them without objection. However, Shen Haoning snatched a broken hairpin from the brazier on a rainy night. The white thread in the hairpin revealed the first truth: She was not the one in the coffin, and it may not be her real death on paper.
From the palace residence to the palace's old repository, from dowry shop deeds to trade account rights, from a death document to a city's unobjectionable general register, Shen Haoning went all the way to investigate and found that many people had not lived, but had been written as "never existed".
She wanted to name them.
I am not crying for them, nor am I seeking belated justice for them.
It is to return every relic, every page of accounts, and every fingerprint to its proper place, so that those who want to write a living person to death can confess their guilt on paper.
