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Books by 寂灭裁决使
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A Granary of Grain Owed to Spring 欠春一仓粮
During the Jiading era of the Southern Song, Qingruo Ferry on the Chang River was hit by a spring famine. A stone of emergency rice cost sixteen strings of cash to transport. Yu Bingheng had nothing to offer as collateral, so he set four old measuring scoops outside the grain shop instead. He had worked in a grain store, could calculate shipping costs, and knew how to repair measuring tools. But he couldn't figure out one thing: grain boats passed right before his eyes, so why couldn't his neigh
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A Voice from Within the Wood 声从木里来
In the fifth year of Yuanfeng under the Northern Song, at a small gathering in a Suzhou garden, a player’s finger slips on the strings. But Ju Wangye, who is repairing a stool, first notices a patch of fresh lacquer bulging on the underside of the qin. He calls a halt to the performance, pays for the wood, and finds himself drawn into a craft where no one truly dares to rush. A discarded page of music is tucked into a crack. Following a few vague fingering marks, he and the female qin player Shi
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Bianjing Is Missing One Liang 汴京缺一梁
In the second year of the Chongning era, an old warehouse in Bianjing is being dismantled and sold off. To save a pillar that seems dangerously unstable, the draughtsman Yu Xun spends six strings of cash to buy the entire warehouse. Instead, the chisel marks on the wood reveal the name of his father, Yu Changgeng, from four years ago. The official verdict on the West Dike Warehouse collapse said his father had mistakenly removed a temporary support. But the survivors remembered that the proper t
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The Blank Page of Bianjing 汴京空白页
In the third year of Yuanyou, Bianjing is lined with bookshops. Xin Qichi runs a book repair shop left to him by his father, mending pages and restoring bindings for others, and laying to rest old books no one else is willing to hear out. He has a craft he dares not reveal: by bringing clear water, old paper, and lamplight together, he can see the "shadows of books" between damaged lines. These are no supernatural visions, but the hesitation of the hand that wrote them, the sighs of readers, and
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The Observer Across the River 彼岸观测者
When the first “missing people” appeared in the world, no one knew they hadn’t vanished. They had been sent to a place that did not exist in the real world: The Corridor of Annihilation. There were countless eerie dungeons there: In the abandoned hospital, one doctor disappeared every day. On the midnight bus, none of the passengers had shadows. In the century-old mansion, an extra room that didn’t exist appeared every night at midnight. On the deserted island, everyone forgot their own name. Th
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Ten Thousand Volumes Illuminate the Land Beneath the Night-Bright Sky 万卷山河照夜明
Antique book conservator Shang Zhaoyin takes on an unnamed, incomplete manuscript. The pages have no title or preface, only a line that appears whenever they are exposed to moisture and vanishes again in an instant: “Not Recorded in Dream Pool.” When he restores the first name on a fragment, a corresponding record vanishes out of thin air from an archive in the present day. To stop the entire book from continuing to “eat words,” Shang Zhaoyin follows ink stains flowing upstream into Runzhou in t
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Where the Verdict Falls, the Tide Begins to Roar 判词落处起潮声
In the sixth year of the Shaoding era of the Southern Song, the most expensive official document in Lin'an is used to wrap a dead fish. Wenren Zhaoye, a clerk at the prefectural office, recognizes an extraordinary lawsuit on the paper. A widow who was buried thirteen years ago has apparently appeared in person at Lin'an Prefecture and won a case the previous day over sandy farmland worth ten thousand strings of cash. Stranger still, the judgment is scrupulously fair, citing old precedents that p
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