In the 22nd year of Hongchang, a thunder and fire struck the east wing of Su Mansion.
Su Shi, the only legitimate son of the Su family, woke up and became a girl who had lost her memory. The old courtyard was sealed, the old name was suppressed, and everyone in the mansion changed their name to her as the second young lady. She was taught how to dress, walk, and recognize people, and was also pushed to live in a completely unfamiliar identity.
But the word "Su Shi" still remained on her.
She didn't know who the name originally belonged to, nor what that person had left behind before Lei Huo. She could only read and write in the Tingxue Pavilion, looking through the old things in the east chamber, and searching along the broken pages, old boxes and files. Field records, taxes, clans, fugitives, old cases... Those words that were originally far away from the boudoir were spread out in front of her page by page, and they also revealed more people who had been suppressed and erased.
Su Wanyi, the eldest daughter of the Su family, secretly wrote "An Examination of the Poems of Ladies of All Times" and filled in the woman's name from the fragments of old books. Some people hide old manuscripts in the bottom of boxes, some send the pages to the charcoal basin and take them back before the ashes fall; some secretly learn calligraphy, just so that one day they can write their own names.
Lei Huo left no answer.
But those words that were almost burned, suppressed, and forgotten were eventually picked up bit by bit by someone.
Concept: This is a story about how "words" are left behind. A thunder and fire took away Su Shi's old identity, and did not give her an answer to pursue. She could only live with a blank slate. Between the family discipline, the gaps in the boudoir, the taxes and food in the files, and human lives, she slowly saw herself, and also saw those people who had never made a note for them. Some people were almost burned, some never left a name in their lives, and some borrowed someone else's name and wanted to pay off some of their unpaid debts. What the story ultimately wants to write about is not who can completely save whom. The world has its heavy debts, and doing the right thing may not offset all the costs. But there are always people who are willing to leave those words that almost disappeared page after page after the ashes have settled.