When Chen Shen was crouching and typing in a rental house in Nanjing, she would always think of something - the young man who had accompanied her to scavenge in the yard of the hardware factory. The night when the news of his marriage came, she smashed the USB flash drive with the song review of "Wait a Minute" and watched the document fragments scattered on the screen like the blood stars coughed up by her father. Until architectural photographer Zhou Xuanhe appeared with images of Yunling old factory buildings, this Beijing young man who always typed codes in her regular cafe used the language of the lens to open up her rusty heart.
The "Splendid Garden Poisoning Incident" that broke out in Linzhou broke the peace. Residents of three households suffered from sudden kidney failure, pointing directly at the steel bars supplied by Zhou's father's "Yunling Building Materials". Fa Xiao Zhou Lan was charged with commercial fraud and imprisoned. A letter from prison revealed the shocking inside story: "Ye Zhonghui mixed industrial waste into the concrete of the building." Chen Shen sneaked into Zhou Xuanhe's darkroom to develop evidence and found that the poisoned building actually used the dangerous building formula of Ye's ancestral home in 1937.
On a rainy night, Ye Zhonghui's bodyguards forced Zhou Xuanhe to the cross-river bridge. Surveillance footage captured him being pushed into the river by a man in black. The SD card he held in his arms contained evidence of Ye's century-old crimes - from stealing the Zhou family's anti-rust technology to forging modern building materials inspection reports.
Chen Shen restored the truth with the online serial novel "Rusty Spring", and the number of real-time hits exceeded 100 million. That night, Ye's stock plummeted. She saw unsent photos in Zhou Xuanhe's last circle of friends: in the surveillance screenshot of the Jade Bird Video Store, He He in 1997 was holding her hand in front of the audition machine, while the boy outside the glass window in the corner was wearing a familiar Bodhi bracelet.
Old loves and new loves have all turned into rusty moonlight. Only Zhou's father's diary embedded in the concrete will never fade away: "It took me a long time in this business to realize that conscience is the best anti-rust paint."
Purpose: An uncompromising conscience in the rusty era