Secrets of the Old Street in the Printer

Lin Mo, owner of a print shop in an urban village, spends every day dealing with jammed printers, a landlady demanding rent, and neighbors mooching off his Wi-Fi. He has kept a secret for more than twenty years: he can see objects formed from people's "obsessions." A rusty copper coin hangs from a debtor's shoulder, a heartbroken person carries a melted candy in their pocket, and on his own chest he always wears a chipped copper gourd no one else can see.

Then a secondhand printer he picked up starts "working on its own." Along with the files customers want printed, strange symbols keep appearing on the pages it spits out. Stranger still, the addresses those symbols point to conceal secrets the old street's residents have guarded for half their lives. The missing-person poster in the hardware store owner's drawer features a boy who looks exactly like Lin Mo. The keychain on the backpack of a young woman who often comes in to print graduate school exam materials is one half of a pair with the copper gourd his grandmother left him. Even the landlady demanding rent has those symbols carved into the soles of her slippers.

When the printer spits out a page reading, "Lin Mo will disappear in three days," he realizes that the "obsessions" he can see are only the tip of the iceberg, revealing a web of secrets rooted beneath the old street. And that old printer is grinding everyone's past, present, and future into pulp, slowly piecing them together again...