Wen Yan's grandmother left her three rules:
Objects preserve echoes, all of them lingering thoughts from human hearts. They are neither ghosts nor monsters.
Lay regrets to rest, never pry into private matters, and never try to alter the past.
This ability takes a heavy toll on the mind. Listen only briefly, and never lose yourself in it.
She is the last Listener, able to hear the sighs unknown to anyone else, spanning a century, whenever she touches an old object.
A little shop deep in an old alley holds all the partings and enduring memories of Jiangnan.
Until Lu Zheng, a police evidence technician from the city bureau, knocks on her shop door.
He believes in the law, in physical evidence, and in science.
He reconstructs the truth of the human world through investigation.
She hears its regrets in lingering echoes.
One is a materialist who traces evidence; the other, an idealist who listens to sounds.
Until the relic from an old case speaks in her palm...
The police officer who had been a materialist for half his life stood before her and said softly:
"I believe you."
Materialist detective × metaphysical Listener
"The man who believed in evidence came to believe all her secrets."
Theme: Physical evidence restores the facts; old objects preserve the human heart.
The past cannot be changed, but regrets can finally be laid to rest.
There are two kinds of truth in this world: one remains in the traces, the other is sealed in the heart of an object.
There is no need to rewrite the past. To see it is already an act of mercy.
