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When the world first opened and chaos raged, the Twelve Nuo Officers were born in response to this. Jin Chahai, as the last Fang Xiangshi, was ordered to find the Twelve Nuo Faces and his successors. This is not his first time in the world.

Our family's paper-making shop has been passed down to me for the fourth generation. The ancestors set down three iron rules and wrote them on the locust wood sign with a cinnabar pen. The third item is the strangest: after closing every night, an empty bench must be left outside the door for "night guests". Until tonight, heavy rain. I peeked out through the crack in the door - there was a wet human-shaped water stain on the stool. It seems like something has been sitting here for a long time. And now, it's coming in.

My tomb robbing career started with a kidnapping. My first golden tool was the half bottle of lubricant from the supermarket in my trouser pocket. --I am just an ordinary person who wants to live, but fate seems to insist that I live to be a legend. A very cowardly, very poor, but a legend who talks a lot.

"Yadoji" collects essays, poems and novel drafts from 2021 to 2025. To me, they are a privilege: the right to travel from the present to the past.