"Return to Tide"

Qi Suhe is a historical investigator. Her grandfather's words before his death, "You have to let more people know," put a heavy burden on her shoulders - to find the buried truth about the war. After three years of in-depth reporting in Beijing, she was overwhelmed by the eyes of those old people, quit her job, and fled to a small seaside town in the south called Ancheng. In Ancheng, she opened a second-hand bookstore called "Chaosheng". The boss, Gu Junying, talks little, but he remembers every book she took and every word she said about "cold" and "hungry". He studied history and chose to retreat behind the bookshelf to guard the books for others, waiting for those who were carrying the truth to get tired and have a place to sit. In the next three years, Qi Suhe flew frequently to Tokyo, Taipei, London, and New York. From a yellowed diary to a tin box, from microfilm to old notes, she pieced together pieces of evidence scattered around the world. And Gu Junying always stayed in Ancheng, saying "Where are you flying" every time she took off, and "We're here" when she landed. He never asked questions, never pressed, just waited. In the past three years, she met his friends, his parents, and also took him back to his hometown to meet his mother. She finished the book and he read every page of her first draft. On the day she retrieved her last testimony from Japan, he waited for her at the airport until late at night and said, "I will fly as far as you want." "Return to Chaosheng" tells a story about search and return. Looking for the truth, looking for myself, looking for a place to land. The book contains the running and exhaustion on the long road, as well as the light of a person waiting quietly in place. The ebb and flow, endless life - that bookstore hidden deep in the southern town has become the end of all wanderings. --- Concept: A female investigator who was overwhelmed by the historical truth fled to a small southern town and met him who opened a second-hand bookstore. In the past three years, she flew all over the world looking for evidence, and he stayed at the same place waiting for her return. When she finally walked all the way, she realized that what he wanted to give was never an answer, but a home where she could land.