Suspense reasoning × time travel × fantasy story of the Republic of China
On a rainy night in 2024, ancient book restorer Jiang Jinyue received a bloody diary from 1948.
Before the rouge on the copper lock had cooled down, the sound of women from the Republic of China embroidering shoes could be heard from the attic.
The old man in gray who bowed and disappeared during the surveillance, the bloody cheongsam at the bottom of the box with a perfect match of DNA, and the disappearing writings in the diary, dragged her into a time and space deadlock with Fu Yunsheng, the young owner of the trading company - every second of his writing corresponded to the tight pearl necklace around her neck.
In the 37th year of the Republic of China, seven agarwood boxes covered with charms were brought into the attic of the Fu family business. The female student Lin Wanqing disappeared since then.
Seventy years later, Jiang Jinyue discovered that the wooden boxes hid the truth of the sacrifice: each box locked the soul of an "unclean woman", and the cracks in the library were all destructive time and space doors. As her hand repairing ancient books rewrote history, Fu Yunsheng's pen carved a countdown in red words simultaneously on her palm.
The oracle bones revealed in the rain, the patina of the ventilation ducts, and the peach wood nails driven into the door frames formed a cycle of killing that spanned eighty years.
On a night when heavy rains in two time and space meet, Jiang Jinyue and Fu Yunsheng look at each other in the mirror, with the coffin and torch approaching with the sound of bells behind them. If he tears up the diary, he will be trapped in the secret room forever in 1948; if he leaves the words, she will become a new sacrifice in 2024.
When the library collapses in time, the possibility of everyone's survival appears on the back of the library cards.
The ink on the last page of the diary is floating:
"Now, you're stuck at the beginning of the story."
Purpose: Tracing the roots
