Please Bear Witness When the White Tide Comes

After the sky split, white tides would come from the edge of the world every sunset. Houses without title deeds will become empty lots, villages without genealogy will sink into the fog, and the dead who no one remembers will seem like they were never born. Everyone in the city must have their name verified by year, because here, evidence is also needed to survive. Lu Zhaochuan is an apprentice at Linhe Corpse Collection Shop. He can wash corpses, sew wounds, identify waterways, and can also see the "missing words" on the witnesses that have been deliberately dug out. When she was seventeen, the official tore off her sister's household registration papers and said that there had never been such a person in the city. There are still six hours until sunset. Lu Zhaochuan must find three unrelated witnesses, an old object that predates his sister's birth, and the person who has been dead for seven days but called her name on the morgue. Later he learned that it wasn't just a little girl who needed to be proven. There is also a river, nine cities, the extinguished sun, and the history that everyone has lived together.