Restorer Under the Sacred Tree

She thought she was here to repair cultural relics. Only later did I realize that what I was cultivating was the obsession of four generations. 2024, Guanghan. Xu Luoqing, a 29-year-old cultural relic restorer, came to Sanxingdui Museum from Beijing. She took over the bronze sacred tree that her master Zhou Zhengyan had not finished repairing for forty years - more than two thousand fragments, with a six-month countdown that must be completed before the new museum opens. Pressure, doubts, funding crisis, and public siege. She failed again and again and collapsed again and again. Her father's notes allowed her to discover a secret that had been hidden for thirty years. Behind Master's silence lies a lifetime of regrets. Best friend Tang Jiaqi's family is actually related to the discovery of Sanxingdui. And the assistant Qin Zefeng, who was always laughing and joking and teasing her in Sichuan dialect, said when she was at her most desperate: "I have been waiting for you for a year. Not for the answer. Just to let you know that someone is waiting." Six months later, the sacred tree was put on display in the museum's new building. An old man walked up to her and bowed deeply—— "Thank you for protecting our roots." She helped the old man up: "It's not us. It's four generations." This is a story about restoration. Repair cultural relics, repair memory, and repair roots. It is also a story of one person completing the cultivation of obsession for a group of people.