Nanyang Archives Black Market

Lin Zhen, a Malaysian Chinese girl, was sorting out her grandfather's belongings when she discovered a black-and-white photo and a parchment scroll of Teochew songs. Both of these things hide a shocking history of blood and tears. Song Lixiong, who was also a descendant of Nanyang, came to hear the news and purchased it at a high price in the name of the "Overseas Chinese Literary and History Foundation" with the intention of sealing the archives in a Swiss private museum. Lin Zhen's childhood friend Anan helped Lin Zhen uncover the truth step by step. Lin Zhen teamed up with Malayan scholars to dive into the deep sea and salvage the tin-sealed ledger that recorded the crimes of colonial capital. However, Song Lixiong used the coast guard to intercept it, and Anan tore up five key pages. In desperation, Lin Zhen made thousands of copies of the remaining accounts and launched a shocking exhibition in Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur - the food stall menus were printed with the workers' numbers, and the poems signed in the temple were replaced with the workers' last words. When the court was about to rule that the exhibition was defamatory, hundreds of descendants of laborers burned copies of the ledgers in the former rubber plantation. From the ashes, a memorial sapling emerged from the ground. Three years later, on the introductory sign of the memorial forest, which has become a tourist attraction, the words "spontaneous reclamation" were blurred with paint. Lin Zhen finally completed her grandfather's redemption. "They want to burn history, so let's let the ashes speak."