The Dreamweaver's Book

Su Jinshi, a cultural relic conservator, wakes up to find herself the sole heir of an intangible cultural heritage family, bound to a blank copy of "The Book of Woven Dreams".

At midnight, "The Han Xizai Night Revels" in the art museum comes to life. The guests in the painting mechanically repeat the same banquet, and anyone who disrupts its rules will be pulled inside and turned into a new "exhibit."

In an ancient village's ancestral hall, the long-lost Nuo opera is performed night after night. The villagers put on masks and begin to transform into the malevolent gods those masks represent.

While everyone else is screaming and fighting to survive, Su Jinshi calmly slips on her white restoration gloves and runs a hand over a fine crack in the painting. "The language of painting is the language of thread. Your rules need to be remounted."

She thinks this is just a professional habit of a restorer, until the man who always appears in her dreams holding an umbrella shows up and shields her from a rain of shattered glass.

Lu Zhian says, "You aren't restoring a painting. You're mending this world's dream, which is on the verge of falling apart."

Only then does Su Jinshi understand that every thread of warp and weft she repairs with her fingertips patches a fracture in the real world.