A person has lived only if his name is written in the family tree; if his name is crossed out with a red pen, he cannot even become a ghost.
Fang Yi is a genealogist who relies on a wooden movable type plate to make a living. There are three precepts in cultivating genealogies: don't deceive ancestors, don't make unnecessary additions, and don't eliminate people.
The patriarch said that this family has no heirs and cannot be included in the family tree.
Fang Yi touched the back of the old score - a name had been cut out. That man is still alive in the mountain col, and has not spoken to anyone for thirty years.
The fake lineage of clinging to a famous family, the pedigree of a stranger who has lost all his wealth, the pedigree of lawsuits involving three generations...
Behind every alteration on the score is a human life.
And he can memorize the entire genealogy, and no detail can be hidden from him.
But in the end, he discovered that his genealogy was also fake.
