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Books by Yangyangpp
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Rivers and Mountains Beneath the Night-Bright Sky 照夜河山
Antique book conservator Wen Yansheng takes on an unsigned, incomplete manuscript. Its title has worn away, leaving only the words “Rivers and Mountains Shining Through the Night” on the cover. But the seventh leaf has been cleanly removed from the spine. The donor left one instruction: Do not replace that page. Wen Yansheng assumes the collector is being mysterious for effect, until the paste on the back of the paper forms a river that has yet to dry. At its end is the name of an unfamiliar man
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This Jar of Candy Won't Accept Its Fate 这瓮糖，不认命
The whole family had spent a year hoping for the sugar lion. When the bidding reached three strings of cash, Bing Hexu raised his wooden mallet and knocked off its head. The outside gleamed like amber, but inside there was a damp, sandy foot. The lion was ruined, and the high price was gone, but the two strings of cash due on the fifteenth day of the tenth month would not be reduced by a single coin. His father was still hoping a vat of good frosting would turn things around. His mother had alre
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Ink Trails Across Mountain Passes 墨痕渡关山
Ruan Xingheng, a restorer of ancient books, finds a damaged manuscript during an effort to rescue local historical documents. It has no title, no author, and not even a single complete page. The book fears no water. Instead, it needs rain for ink before the erased words will appear. It records a "Spring Flood in Hebei" from the end of the Xining era in the Northern Song, an event omitted from official histories: seventeen river relay stations caught fire at once, thirty thousand refugees vanishe
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Heaven’s Mandate in the Scroll 天章入卷
While sorting the final batch of books at an ancient-text restoration workshop about to close, Yan Yanchi receives a fragmentary Northern Song manuscript of unknown origin. Its title page bears no name, but the paper’s reverse side hides the sound of waves. Beneath the restoration lamp, a line of ink slowly appears on the blank seventh leaf: “On the seventeenth day of the ninth month of the second year of the Qingli era, the proofreader Yan Yanchi enters the manuscript.” He thinks it’s a prank,
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The Land Captured in Bamboo Slips 山河入简
Ancient-book restorer Cen Yanchuan had one nearly uncompromising rule: restoration could replace paper, but it could not put words in the mouths of the dead. During a routine restoration, he took on a fragmentary manuscript unearthed at the site of an old waterway in Qinzhou. Its title, author, and date had all been blurred by water, but one line of tiny writing remained unnaturally clear: “If you are reading this in a later age, Cen Yanchuan, do not fill in this gap.” He left the missing stroke
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