Turn Back

Lin Ye is an "abnormal event investigator". His abilities are narrow: touching the relics of the deceased and seeing the memories of the ten seconds before their death. There are hundreds of glass bottles hidden in Qin Moyan's basement. Inside each bottle is a swirling mist—emotions drawn from a living person. These emotions sustained him for more than two hundred years. But one bottle is empty. The label reads "Lin Xiao" - Lin Ye's sister who has been missing for three years. She has been here. She escaped. Before she escaped, she touched Qin Moyan's ring, leaving a crack on it. Lin Wangchuan, the founder of the Ouroboros Society, planted a locust tree two hundred years ago and carved a tombstone. There is only one line of words on the tombstone: "Where we turn back." And Lin Ye finally discovered the scar on the back of his left hand on the day his sister disappeared—— Not a wound. Is a key. "The mirror doesn't look at other people. It pulls their names out of the ashes." ------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a story about names, waiting, and looking back. About a man who spent two hundred years helping others keep their names. About another guy who spent three years picking these names up from the ashes, wiping them clean, and putting them on the table.