21-Year-old Ji Chengan never thought that he would inherit the "Obsession Herbarium" left by his mother - a fantasy place that houses unfinished obsessions in the world. Unsaid apologies condense into curled-up pom-pom beasts, and deeply buried regrets turn into flying fireflies. If allowed to wander, they will devour the human sense of happiness. As the owner of the museum, he can see and touch these "obsession entities", but he is naturally emotionally insensitive. Making specimens is just a mechanical process for him. The only thing that supports him is the idea of finding the truth about his mother's disappearance, and the blank "Obsession Notes" left by his mother.
Zhihuai, a 25-year-old teacher from the Department of Sculpture, accidentally broke in and broke the silence of the herbarium. He is a rare "obsession resonance body". When he is close to the entity, he will immersively experience the joys and sorrows behind it. He has been suffocated by the pain of others all year round. And Ji Chengan's "insensitivity" turned out to be his only emotional haven. The two reached a tacit understanding: Fu Zhihuai helped Ji Chengan understand the story behind his obsession, and Ji Chengan shielded Fu Zhihuai from the harm of emotional overload. In the process of weaving specimen frames with moonlight grass and embellishing the eyes with emotional crystals, the indifferent museum owner gradually came into contact with the weight of emotions, and the closed-minded teacher also learned to live with ability.
As the blank notebook is activated by obsession, the truth about her mother's disappearance emerges - she voluntarily turned into a specimen in order to contain the "giant obsession" that carries the town's collective regrets. What's even more astonishing is that the core of this obsession is actually related to Fu Zhihuai's unspoken apology to his friend who died of illness in his childhood.
Folklore museum director Pei Leyu and assistant Ji Zhimian, observer from the future Liu Shuobai and medical student Xu Huaijin were also involved one after another. The four pairs of partners each showed their strengths. In the end, Ji Chengan broke through his insensitivity and took the initiative to empathize, while Fu Zhihuai faced the past and completed reconciliation. Everyone worked together to transform huge obsessions into warm "memorial specimens", allowing regrets to remain as memories instead of injuries.
Purpose: Using "obsession materialization" and "specimen production" as fantasy carriers to break the perception that "obsession is negative", convey the healing concept of "regret does not need to be eliminated, acceptance becomes a memorial", and ultimately focuses on self-reconciliation and two-way redemption.