In this city, some place names are disappearing. Not renamed, not abandoned, but completely erased from everyone's memory - along with everything anchored by that name: the buildings, the streets, the people who lived there, and all the stories that happened there.
The Place Names Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau has a little-known and unpopular department, which is commonly known internally as the "Book Staple Team". Their duty is to monitor the dissipating "floating lands" - areas that have become disconnected from reality due to the loss of place names - and to "pin" them back to the human world by examining history and reconstructing memories.
Twenty-six-year-old Chen Yan is the latest book stapler. He followed a incomplete manual left by his late grandfather to enter the industry, and discovered a shocking secret: Real estate tycoon Liang Bingkun had used the loophole in the rules of "cancellation of place names means the land is ownerless" for many years to artificially create floating land and enclose land at zero cost, turning countless old neighborhoods into blank squares on the capital chessboard.
From an old alley with a century-old fragrance to an unknown textile factory dormitory; from a bus stop where passengers disappeared after getting on the bus, to the ultimate devouring of the entire old city - Chen Yan and Meng Wan, a planner who came from the opposite side, joined forces to use old files, old photos and the remaining memories of ordinary people to start a smokeless war with capital.
No superpowers, no system. A young man rummaged through piles of old papers to find the truth, listened to the disappearing voices outside the walls of the demolition site, and used the testimony of thousands of people at the hearing to confront the business blueprint of three billion. His weapon only has one sentence - where the name is, there is home.
