It was the twenty-seventh year of the Zhao Kingdom.
Railways were opened, telegraphs were set up, and newspapers sent thousands of names to various places every day.
The New Deal spent more than twenty years conducting population censuses and determining place names, trying to bring order to a country that had experienced war.
Lin Shu, the registration clerk of Chengchuan County Office, does every day to add people who were born to the register and remove people who died from the register.
He has always believed that the words on the paper will be wrong and people will lie, but as long as all the records are matched one by one, the truth can always be found.
Until one day, he found a death certificate from twenty-three years ago.
The deceased's name, age, place of origin, and burial place are all available.
But this man is still alive.
He has a wife, a son, a shop, neighbors, and someone calling his name every day.
What's even stranger is that everything that proves he is alive is also true.
Lin Shu began to investigate this error.
Genealogy, old books, temple books, newspapers, photos...
He gradually discovered that after some people spelled their names incorrectly, they lost more than just their identity.
And when he found his name in an old volume that had been gathering dust for many years, he discovered for the first time——
Everyone in the world knows his name is Lin Shu.
But there may not be anyone who can prove that "Lin Shu" is him.
