The story takes place in contemporary Beijing, focusing on cultural relic restoration and digital media art, two industries that appear to be parallel but actually intersect. The core setting is: the heroine Zhong Wantang comes from a scholarly family in Jiangnan and is the youngest restorer of ancient books in the Palace Museum; the male protagonist Cheng Yubai is an AI visual algorithm engineer graduated from Tsinghua University. He was born in an ancient town in Jiangnan famous for its bamboo weaving intangible cultural heritage, but he has made a name for himself in the technology circle. The two first became acquainted through an intangible cultural heritage documentary project called "The Rebirth of Ancient Art" - she represented traditional manual restoration skills, and he was responsible for using digital technology to present the beauty of intangible cultural heritage. From mutual misunderstanding to mutual appreciation, they finally found their "third language" between inheritance and innovation.
Purpose: "Repairing books is like cultivating the mind, seeing words is like seeing people" - "Repairing as old as before" in the restoration of ancient books is both a craft criterion and a philosophy of life. Real repair is not to erase the scars, but to make the scars become part of the story; true love is not to turn the other person into what you want, but to become a better version of yourself in each other's gaze.