Obsessive Restorer

Pei Ji has been repairing antiques for ten years. Broken porcelain bowls can be cured, cracked bronze mirrors can be repaired, and rusted bronze can be picked. He has always felt that repairing things is essentially a struggle against time. Later he realized that something cracked was not the organ, but the human heart. There is a person living in every antique. The craftsman who fired the kiln, the bride who committed suicide, the blind fortune teller - they sewed their obsessions into the glaze, embroidered them into the silk threads, and carved them into the lines. The longer it goes, the tighter it becomes. Pei Ji's job is to untie these tight knots one by one. He thought that was all. Until he discovered that the old scar on his finger from twenty years ago was also a knot.