Tinker of All Worlds

A century-old bookstore with three generations of bookkeepers. A charred fragment of a scroll, hiding the cracks in the world. The day after Chen Yan inherited his ancestral business, he found that he could enter the world in the book. Those worlds are collapsing - the sky in the martial arts world has opened into blood-red seams, the mountains in the fairy world are falling piece by piece, and huge things in the ancient world are squeezing in through the cracks. Fixing a page of a book can stabilize a world. He is the last tinker. When he entered the book realm for the first time, he brought out a red cotton-padded jacket that he had been waiting for for thirty-seven years. The second time he entered the Book Realm, he met his father who had been missing for half his life. His father pushed him out of the crack, but he didn't come out. The third time he entered the book realm, he saw a mountain, a pine tree, and a silhouette. The figure turned around, it was his grandfather. "Yan'er," Grandpa said, "the book is here, the environment is here, and I am here." This is a story about tinkering. Repair the fragments, repair the world, repair the thirty-seven years of waiting, repair the unspoken words of three generations.