Repair Bones

He could hear Zhi's thoughts. Tan Yuzhou is an ancient book restorer. Master's eight-character discipleship instruction: Paper has a lifespan of a thousand years, but people's hearts are unpredictable. The master taught him how to mend paper and listen for traces - from the curtain lines, ink color and creases of a fragment of a page, he could hear the breath held by the scribe back then. Only on the third level, the master refused to teach until death: listen to people's hearts. Until my father left the last recording. Thirty-one seconds. There was no sound inside, just a tuning fork that rang three times, and a room he shouldn't have recognized. Following these three sounds, he ran into an old case that had been buried for twelve years: his sister Qi Yinshu died in an "accident", and the last book she handled during her lifetime was missing pages. His sister Qi Yinchi chased him for twelve years and left him only one sentence - Zhou'er, don't come. The opponent is called Vigil. Vigil never kills, he is only responsible for making people forget: forget a page, forget a recording, forget what they have heard. To win against him, you have to be better at forgetting than him. But Tan Yuzhou is the one who refuses to forget anything. Repair means mending, and bones are the spine that holds a book from collapsing. It was only on the last page that he understood: The third level that the master refused to teach was never about listening to people's hearts, but about getting through what was heard. Paper has a lifespan of a thousand years, but people's hearts are unpredictable. Then he would use this skill to gamble on people's hearts.