"Conservators hate curators the most - you tear eternity into pieces and call it art."
"But without the thrilling moment, who would remember the thousand years of silence?"
Fu Chenzhou is the youngest ancient metal restoration expert in the Forbidden City. His hands can restore the patina of thousands of years, but he cannot repair the old dream that was torn apart three years ago.
Lin Shuxing is a top curator who competes for huge sums of money in auction houses. She is good at using exhibitions to turn cultural relics into commercial bombs, but she was kicked out of the special exhibition project of the Forbidden City - she had to get the 320 bronzes restored by Fu Chenzhou himself, and the other party was her old lover who was "chaotic and abandoned".
Three years ago, late at night in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, she approached him in the name of "collecting style", but she ended up having an affair with him under the gilt copper lamp of the cultural relic inspection. She disappeared without a trace at dawn, leaving only a copper ring engraved with "star", and the ring contained an unspoken oath.
Three years later, behind the gilt screen in the restoration room of the Forbidden City, he trapped her in front of a Han Dynasty translucent mirror, and rubbed the deer pattern mark on her waist with his fingertips: "Miss Lin used me as a springboard to open up connections in Dunhuang, and now she wants to rely on the special exhibition in the Forbidden City. Clean up the auction house business?" She smiled and slapped the curatorial plan on his chest: "Mr. Fu, why don't you take a look first - my idea of using holographic projection to 'rust' bronze vessels knows more about time than your carving knife for repairing cultural relics." He crushed the USB flash drive she handed him, but caught her stealing a list of cultural relics at midnight. In the holographic light and shadow, the rust of the Shang and Zhou Bronze Lords crawled across the intertwined palms. The moment the alarm sounded, she bit his Adam's apple and chuckled: "Do you think this is a cultural relic crime, or is it a rekindling of an old love?"
Concept: Time cannot be tamed, but love can reshape our imagination of eternity