In the autumn of 2024, the warehouse of the Old City Archives was renovated, and a box of unnamed foreign manuscripts from 1940 came to light from an abandoned dark warehouse. The pages were in a state of decay and were deemed useless by everyone, so they were quietly stored away for eighty-four years.
Wen Xu, a graduate student in foreign languages at Yonghe University, was invited to review the remaining manuscript, and he was keenly aware of the layers of deliberate disguise hidden under the plain essay. However, the remaining paper is on the verge of turning into powder and cannot be forced to be viewed for clues.
He found Lu Ling, who had inherited the skill of papermaking from generation to generation. Lu Ling is aware of all the hidden traces of human beings in the paper and ink, and is proficient in conventional foreign languages, but has difficulty deciphering the obscure wartime handwritten secrets.
The interpreter of the text and the watcher of the paper trace the origin side by side, peeling off the layers of disguise over the years, and the outline of a past event that has been buried for eighty-four years is slowly revealed.
Intent: Spanning eighty-four years, words and paper support each other. The truth that has been deliberately buried will not die forever. Those kindness, tolerance and protection hidden in the folds of writing and ink will eventually be patiently brushed away by someone, allowing the silent past to see the light of day again.