I Plead Grievances for Old Things

A trainee mediator, Shen Zhao, came to the Dahu Municipal Antiquities Appeal Tribunal. He has a secret - if you touch an old object with grievances, you can hear its "testimony". The 1943 enamel bowl cried out that it was the "property of a traitor" and was wrongly judged; The aluminum label in 1989 roared the truth that the owner was "suicided"; An unsent letter stubbornly proves that its owner is not treasonous. According to the rules, the appeals court only mediates the ownership of "things" and does not review the cases of "people". But Shen Zhao discovered that every old thing in this city is waiting for someone who can hear them. The nine senior mediators of the Appeals Tribunal correspond to nine categories of "inadmissible" unjust cases. It's not that they can't accept it. They don't dare. Because every old object that is successfully redressed will allow Shen Zhao to see a secret history of the city that "should have been forgotten." And when the ninety-ninth old thing opens his mouth, he will know the night his biological sister "disappeared" three years ago—— Who on earth "filed" her into a blue and white porcelain bowl.