Shen Zhiyi, a top cultural relic restorer, died in the winter when she was thirty-five. On the way to submit a divorce agreement to the Civil Affairs Bureau, a car accident ended her life and also ended her seven-year long wait for her hidden marriage to Lu Huaijin. Reborn at the age of twenty-five, she brought her previous life with her
Ten years of skills and memories return to the restoration room of the Forbidden City. In this life, she decided to do two things: repair the famous Southern Song Dynasty painting "Endless Picture of Streams and Mountains" that was destroyed in the war, and - stay away from Lu Huaijin.
Lu Huaijin is a top cultural property recovery lawyer. He is calm and restrained and never mentions his marriage publicly. In his previous life, he spent seven years making Shen Zhiyi understand something - it's not that he doesn't love her, it's just that his love will always come after his mother, law firm, and cultural relics recovery.
. After his rebirth, he found that the person who had been waiting forever was no longer waiting: he no longer sent messages asking for his return date, no longer left a light on for him, and no longer made excuses for him over the cold meals.
It took him a long time to realize that she was not angry, but died once and used up her love for him.
The restoration process of a Song Dynasty painting runs throughout. Hidden under the heart of the painting is a love letter written eight hundred years ago: "A piece of paper can live a thousand years, but a love can never live up to a hundred years. You should leave well and don't read it." What Shen Zhiyi read in her previous life was regret, but in this life, she is reading about letting go. When Lu Huaijin finally learned
She would take the initiative to chase her. When she said "I can walk slower" on New Year's Eve, two equally proud people finally completed their reconciliation.
At the end of the book, after repairing the signature, Shen Zhiyi took up the pen and rewritten Ma Yuan's last words——
"Paper has a lifespan of a thousand years, and so does love. You should stay here and see the mountains and rivers together."
Concept: Love is not one person's waiting, but two people's side by side. When restoring cultural relics, we should pay attention to "restoring them as they were before" - respecting every crack and not covering up the injuries it has suffered. The same goes for repairing people's hearts: not denying the disappointments of the past, not erasing the grievances suffered, but still having the courage to choose to believe when a new stroke is made. I hope that everyone who has exhausted themselves for love can be like the ancient paintings in the hands of the restorer - cracked, broken, and let down, but in the end they will be gently picked up and made whole again.