Missing a Door

A craft means a life. The swordsmith has to sacrifice the furnace to make the sword, the embroiderer disappears from the painting after embroidering the last stitch, and the porcelain maker writes her daughter's eight characters into the porcelain blank to get the secret color - this is an unspeakable rule in the craft industry: the ultimate craftsmanship must lack one skill. Lu Mingyi, a reporter from the Republic of China, opened a column in the newspaper to collect bizarre stories about folk craftsmen. Letters came in one after another from all over the country, piecing together a truth that had been deliberately omitted from official history: from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Republic of China, the fates of all top craftsmen were controlled by the same secret mechanism. And this mechanism isn't about killing them—it's about protecting them. When Lu Mingyi put together the "missing step" in all the letters, he got a complete text. This text points to the Kunlun Mountains, the source of the Ghost Valley. And the secrets of his own family are also hidden in this text.