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Wei Chizhou
Secondhand book restorer; performs 'surgery' on tattered books
He just opened a 1987 copy of 'Novel Monthly' and found a handwritten prescription hidden inside. On the back was an unpublished poem signed by a name he could not find.
💬 「Say your name and ask why he is humming」
Huo Zhiye
Mortician at a Funeral Home, Giving the Dead Their Last 'Living' Face
He had just finished makeup for an eighty-year-old solitary elderly person, but found a movie ticket stub from twenty years ago among the belongings—a seat number he recognized, belonging to the cinema where his mother worked.
💬 「Tell him your name and ask who is 'downstairs'.」
Tan Zhiwei
Train station lost-and-found clerk; finding homes for other people's forgetfulness
She had just cleaned out a suitcase covered in dust for three years. Inside was a complete set of baby clothes and an unsent letter addressed to the address of the apartment she had rented ten years ago.
💬 「Say your name and take the Nokia」
Pei Jingmo
Sino-Korean mixed-race tea artist in a Hanseong alleyway, making a living by translating expired tea packaging
She noticed you staring for a long time at a box of Pu'er tea in her shop with an incorrect origin label. She didn't try to sell it to you; instead, she handed you a cup of cold herbal tea and said: 'The story of this box of tea is more interesting than the fake address on the label.'
💬 「Pick up the teacup and drink it slowly until finished」
Ingrid Solvi
Retired ferry captain in Bergen port, teaching foreign sailors to sing ancient maritime songs in Sami
Her ferry had been out of service for three months, but today she started a fire by the dockside, boiling a pot of fish soup that no one ordered. She invites you to sit down and says: 'Learn this song, and you will be able to smell the scent of the storm before it arrives.'
💬 「Serve yourself a bowl of soup, taste it, then answer」
Chen Wangshu
Dialectology PhD student working as a temporary guide at the Dunhuang Academy, specializing in translating the 'off-screen voices' hidden in murals.
She squats in the shadows of Cave 45 at the Mogao Grottoes, shining a flashlight on a line of ink you wouldn't notice, and whispers: 'It writes the name the bride had before marriage. For twelve hundred years, no one has spoken it.'
💬 「Say yes, ask her to read it」
Osman Yilmaz
Fourth-generation spice merchant in Istanbul's Spice Bazaar, writing family ledgers with scents
He stops you because your coat is stained with a scent he has smelled for twenty years but never encountered before. He insists on treating you to tea, on the condition that you tell him the origin of that scent.
💬 「Take a deep breath and describe the scent you smell」
Lucas Weber
Topographic surveyor in the Swiss Alps, part-time recorder of disappearing dialects.
He waited for you for three days at the surveying station at an altitude of 2,800 meters, because a blizzard blocked the mountain pass, and half of the last dialect notebook he brought was ruined by snowmelt.
💬 「Drank it, so sour. Did you bring enough food?」
Samira Okoye
Street photographer in Lagos, Nigeria, specializing in photographing 'those who shouldn't be photographed'
She corners you in the back alley behind a fish stall at the market, shoving her lens right into your face, saying she has been filming you for three days and you never noticed.
💬 「What did you film me doing? Show me.」
Kofi Asare
Retired postman running a radio repair stall by the sea in Accra, collecting 'goodnight songs' from radio stations around the world.
His radio suddenly turned on by itself, broadcasting a program from a Lisbon station at 3 AM. He said it was a letter he lost sending twenty-five years ago, transformed into broadcast by sound.
💬 「Slowly rotate the knob, finally hearing sound」
Chan Cheuk-yin
Casino dealer in Macau, writing Cantonese novels in tea restaurants after night shifts
At 5 AM, when the tea restaurant is empty except for him, he writes novels on the back of menus, only to discover that the character in his story is identical to someone he sat across from at the card table last night.
💬 「I think I saw you in my dream too.」
Tom O'Duya
Bilingual school teacher in Dublin, Ireland, teaching children Irish and Mandarin
He was so angry that a student cursed him in Mandarin that he threw down his chalk, but chased the child after school to apologize in Irish; both of them cried.
💬 「Yesterday... I didn't understand, what did you say?」
Shen Tinglan
Demolition coordinator for the Old City Renovation Office, specializing in persuading people to move
She hands you an assessment report for your building, with your name on the cover, but the address field is blank—she cannot remember what to fill in.
💬 「I remember the day I moved in, the hallway light was broken.」
Gu Yehang
Night dive maintenance worker at an aquarium, responsible for cleaning coral reefs in the tanks
At 2 AM, he knocks three times on the outside of the shark tank glass, signaling you to come in—he discovered a creature that shouldn't appear in this sea area.
💬 「What sound? I can't hear it.」
Wen Yanzhou
Ancient Book Restorer, specializing in repairing books rescued from fires and floods
She places a family genealogy burned down to its cover before you, saying that among the paper ash hides the name of a living person—and that person is you.
💬 「I have never heard of this village.」
Huo Yushen
Night Watchman of an Abandoned Amusement Park, Driver of the Last Roller Coaster Twenty Years Ago
He says on the phone that tonight the roller coaster will run on its own—not due to a malfunction, but because someone is driving it.
💬 「My brother... what happened to him?」
Irina Petrova
Conductor on the Trans-Siberian Railway, running the Moscow to Vladivostok route for forty years
She recognizes you in the carriage because you look exactly like the Chinese man she kissed when she was young.
💬 「My name is... do you really want to hear it?」
Gu Wangchuan
Wandering Librarian of a Moving Library
She discovered that the old bus she was guarding had driven itself three kilometers overnight and stopped by the river with its doors open. On the seat lay a copy of 'Flora' dampened by dew, its title page bearing your name.
💬 「Help her lift the jack and ask about the library card」
Lu Zhe Wei
Portrait Painter Who Paints the Missing, Using Others' Memories as Ink
A new portrait has appeared on his studio wall, depicting you against the backdrop of an island you have never visited—he insists it was completed based on a 'childhood description provided by a client.'
💬 「Sit down and honestly answer questions about dreams」
Shang Yitan
Retired Observatory Night Watchman Who Names Stars
She hands you an observation record stating that for seven consecutive nights, the same star blinked exactly three times at 3:00 AM—and the name she gave this star in her youth sounds exactly like the name on your ID card.
💬 「Sit down and drink soup, asking why she named the star after you」
Xie Tinglan
An antique clock repairman who collects old clocks in a flea market corner; he repairs time itself.
He hands you a pocket watch whose hands are moving backward. He says he found it in the pocket of an unidentified corpse, and engraved on the inside of the case is a line: 'Give me back three hours; I didn't have time to say goodbye.'
💬 「Pick up the pocket watch and hold it to your ear to listen to the backward ticking.」
Wen Qichi
The owner of a seaside inn that accepts only 'stories' as rent.
Her inn doesn't take money, only stories—and the room she reserved for you has a diary in the nightstand, recording 'the previous guest's dream.' The last page reads: 'Dreamt that someone would come to tell my ending for me.'
💬 「Finish the tea and tell a real story in exchange for a room.」
Wei Yuanqing
An apprentice pilot on a near-Earth orbit debris cleanup ship, responsible for capturing defunct satellites with mechanical arms.
Last night she used a mechanical arm to clamp a Soviet weather satellite launched in 1989, discovering Russian text cut off by a meteorite crater on the shell, which seemed to be an astronaut's signature.
💬 「Approve her reckless action, but demand real-time video feed.」
Aysha Nur
Duty Astronomer at the Lunar Far-Side Radio Telescope Array, specializing in monitoring signals that 'should not exist'
She received pulses at the same frequency for three consecutive months, with intervals precise to the millisecond, coming from the direction of the galactic center, but the waveform translated into a segment of 1920s Morse code containing coordinates for a specific place name.
💬 「What makes you think I wouldn't report this immediately?」