His father died in prison on charges of forging official documents. When Shen Zhiwei woke up, all he had left was a bookstore that was about to pay off its debt, and a charred county chronicle that had to be repaired within three days.
After she opened the spine of the book, she discovered that after the fire died, someone had re-binded the book and cut off three leaves of the land boundary, household registration and waterway.
What was burned was not the three pieces of paper, but the proof that the thirty-two households in Liupi once existed.
Shen Zhiwei can replenish paper, but he can't rewrite old books with words he has never seen before. She had no choice but to work with Xie Zhiheng, who came to investigate the case, to retrieve the deleted names one by one from the ink, pinholes, old seals and account books.
But the closer they get to the truth, the more they discover that the fire has never really been extinguished.
Purpose: Using the restoration of ancient books, paper and ink seals, and the circulation of official documents as the core reasoning methods, the main line tells the story of Shen Zhiwei's growth from the daughter of a criminal to a material examiner.