Ye Wei transmigrates to the 1970s. She should have been sent to the countryside, but thanks to her golden finger, she unexpectedly lands a job in the public sector as a clerk in the Public Access Department of the Institute for Religious Texts. One of her colleagues is a Chinese-American returnee who graduated from Harvard and is the inheritor of a lost martial arts art.
While everyone envies her, Ye Wei assumes she’ll be starting a regular nine-to-five office job. But little by little, she realizes that something about the institute’s work doesn’t add up.
Why does her returnee colleague wander around muttering to himself with a compass when they’re excavating an ancient tomb?
Why might they face life-or-death danger when they help a museum with its “public access assessment”?
Why can that ABC recite classical Chinese and so-called incantations with astonishing fluency, only to come back to the institute and say, “My Chinese isn’t good. You write the report”?
It turns out that ordinary people never see the job listing. For now, her role is to exhaust every bit of her imagination to find scientific explanations for mysterious events.
Theme: An entertaining look at cultural relics and museums, and a guide to museum knowledge.
