When Han Yutong was three, her parents split up, and her father sent her to live with her grandfather.
Her grandfather ran a tiny secondhand bookstore. In recent years, as he grew older, business had become harder and harder to keep going.
In the internet age, printed books and magazines were steadily falling out of fashion. Some days, not a single customer came into the shop.
Her grandfather had talked more than once about selling the business, only to sigh that he couldn't bear to let it go.
Watching her grandfather's lonely back, Han Yutong, who had been unemployed for three months, gritted her teeth. "Grandpa, don't sell it. Leave the shop to me. I'll take care of it."
The shop remained quiet after she took over, and Han Yutong often killed time on her phone behind the counter.
One day, she happened upon an antiques appraisal livestream. Seeing tens of thousands of viewers, a thought suddenly struck her:
If I started livestreaming too, and let the old books and objects in the shop "speak" about their stories, would anyone want to listen? Would it bring in more business?
No one knew that this seemingly ordinary young woman was hiding a secret:
She had a magical hand, one that could make voiceless objects "speak."
Theme: Objects are vessels of time, carrying the many flavors of lives that once truly existed.
