Lin Shutong opened a "useless grocery store" in Jiangcheng Old Street. The storefront was dilapidated and the business was deserted. Neighbors thought she was a weirdo—she collected old radios, old cheongsams, and old pocket watches, but never resold them. She just locked the items one by one in the attic.
No one knows that there are "spirits" trapped in those old things.
She was born with the ability to hear the residual sounds in objects: a compass pointed day and night to the non-existent north, which once accompanied a scientific expedition team member lost in a snowstorm; a dressing mirror that could not reflect a human face, in which the erased life of a famous actress from the Republic of China was trapped; a self-writing diary recorded the tampered memory of a girl.
Her job is not to exorcise evil spirits, but to "cross over" - to listen to each stuck story, untie the entangled obsessions, and let them rest.
Until she discovered that the spiritual objects collected in the past six months all pointed to the same place: the "Misty Hidden Villa" that was engulfed in a fire twenty years ago.
There is a "Wanling Pearl" sealed in the villa, which can control all obsessions in the world. An organization called "Hengmen" is secretly collecting resentful spiritual objects with the intention of awakening them. And Lin Shutong himself is actually a descendant of the last generation of "gatekeepers" of the villa.
Shen Yan, an antique dealer who often comes to the shop to have tea, is a descendant of the survivors of the villa, and is charged with the secret mission of protecting her. Interpol Gu Huai initially regarded her as a goddess who pretended to be a god and played ghosts, but after witnessing the murder of a spirit creature, his worldview completely collapsed.
When the Wanling Pearl was about to awaken, Lin Shutong discovered that the way to overcome it was not to suppress it, not to get rid of it - but to face the loneliness it had accumulated over thousands of years.
This time, she wants to use listening to overcome an obsession that has existed for thousands of years.
Old things remain silent, old friends have not returned. In every forgotten thing, there is a word that has never been spoken.
Purpose: Reconciliation is more powerful than confrontation