Celadon Bureau

"Celadon Bureau" is a story about porcelain, and it is also a story about secrets. Hanlin's daughter Shen Jiling watched her family being overturned in the "Celadon Case" and escaped alone. A few years later, she returned to the capital as a porcelain restorer. She could hear the echoes of the past when her fingertips touched every crack in the ice. Under the glaze of the imperial vase, she saw the border defense map that should not have appeared; in the pressed tea cakes of tribute tea, she smelled the smell of flowing money; in the palace banquet and elegant music, she heard the rhythm of the mobilization of the army. It turns out that behind the most exquisite elegance of this dynasty, there are shady deals hidden. She worked her way between the five major forces, dividing, firing, and sealing the truth about her family's injustice into 700 seemingly ordinary pieces of celadon, and sent them to 700 libraries around the world. She was betting that the porcelain would outlive her, that someone would be able to piece together the complete truth. On the day when the last kiln was opened, the fire illuminated half of the capital. The secrets that had been sealed by the glaze for many years finally showed their original textures in the high temperature. Concept: "Celadon Bureau" is a story I have wanted to write for a long time. Many people like to write about the flashes of swords and shadows in the court when writing about power, but I prefer the undercurrents hidden in the elegant daily life - an ice crack on the porcelain, the floating veins of the leaves in the tea soup, and the subtle changes in the Gongchi score in the piano score. These things are everywhere in the lives of ancient people, but they are most easily ignored. What I want to write about is how these "useless beauties" have become the most deadly tools of power. When everyone is staring at the memorials and military symbols, who cares about the secret mark on the bottom of a tea cup? For the role of Shen Jiling, she is not the kind of heroine who is a genius descended from heaven. She just understands the "heart of objects" better than others - because the family was buried by these seemingly elegant things. She wants to piece together the truth of fifteen years ago from a pile of broken porcelain pieces. What touches me most about this story is not the pleasure of revenge, but how a person, after seeing the whole system clearly, still chooses to correct it rather than destroy it. It's like repairing an old piece of porcelain: you have to understand why it broke before you can find a way to make it stand up again. I hope you will enjoy this celadon story that took seven volumes to be slowly fired.