In the ninth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing.
When Shen Qingdai opened her eyes, she became an orphan girl from an official family whose family was in decline. As a modern cultural relic restorer, she clearly remembers: five years later, Li Zicheng destroyed Beijing, and eight years later, the Qing army massacred Yangzhou. This dynasty was heading towards its destined end.
She has no ambition to save the world, she just wants to live - to live through this troubled world soberly, with dignity, and with the people around her.
The first way out she found was the sickly scholar named Yu Yin next to Jiming Temple. On his deathbed, her father said, "This man is trustworthy," and she saw with her own eyes that when he was having a secret conversation with the trafficker, his hands were covered with thick calluses from long-distance riding.
A map, a calculation. She handed over the information in the lowest risk way, betting that this man with "too deep thoughts" would be an ally worth investing in troubled times.
Yu Yin is indeed not simple. He is dressed in plain clothes but has a noble temperament. A cinnabar mole between his eyebrows is like a boy in front of a Buddha. He is suffering from a cough but his eyes are sharp. He is philanthropic but deliberately keeps a low profile. He is involved in various religions but lives in a simple way.
The two went from testing each other to in-depth cooperation - she provided superb forgery restoration skills, and he provided shelter and human resources. It has nothing to do with Fengyue, it is just a survival alliance between two sober people in troubled times.
Shen Qingdai finally understood:
There are some chess games that you play even though you know you will lose.
Some people meet just to say goodbye.
The real way to survive is not in the Jiangnan he paved, but in her own hands - using the hands of repairing ancient books to repair the broken memories of this era, so that what should not be forgotten will never be forgotten.
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Purpose: Wake up and save the world