I Worked as a Librarian in the Republic of China

Xu Shenwei, a 40-year-old university library cataloguer, accidentally traveled to Haiyou University in 1932 while sorting out a set of "Yicun old catalogs" that had been lost for nearly a century. After waking up, he was mistaken for a younger member of the family that is an important sponsor of Haiyou University and an old friend of the president Zhao Muchuan and Mr. Sheng. With this status, he was able to enter the library of Haiyou University. Under the scrutiny of Liang Yanqiu, Han Bingheng and others, he gradually gained a foothold from old books, old accounts, title columns and borrowing records. However, after the Haiyou University archaeological team discovered important antiquities in Mount Tai, Japanese investigative agencies, cultural relic dealers and the owner of Chengyao Hall, Fu Minghao, got involved one after another. What Fu Minghao wants to seize is not an ancient artifact, but the right to interpret the Qilu civilization: who will name the old extensions, who will confirm the old positions, and who will decide how a piece of history will be remembered by future generations. At the same time, a name appeared repeatedly in old accounts, borrowing records, archaeological reports and remaining records: Shen Tingyou. This person seems to be everywhere, yet seems to have been erased from history. Xu Shenwei gradually discovered that the so-called Yicun was not a treasure map, but a civilization backup system left by intellectuals from Haiyou University. The war is approaching, and he must guard the books among the paper and ink in the old library, and also guard the names of those people who cannot be written by mistake.