Vol. 1The Restorer’s Growing World

Shen Le restored haunted antiques, learned to use the Copper Fragment and colored auras, and helped the people and spirits tied to the objects he repaired. After surviving a typhoon and capturing a wolf demon, he began restoring a Doll Cabinet and its puppets, whose history remained unresolved.

  • Shen Le inherited the Old Mansion, restored Xiao Ling, and helped Zhang Zihan recover before arranging performances that eased diners’ and students’ troubles.
  • Shen Le explored the Copper Fragment’s powers and offered to buy a couple’s discarded woodworking tools.
  • Shen Le restored the Ink Marker and learned its connection to Zheng Xiaohua’s family, then helped Zheng recover and reconcile with his wife.
  • Shen Le named the Ink Marker Zheng Mo and discovered how to channel colored auras into repaired wood.
  • Shen Le built a miniature model of his estate, redirected lightning from Xiao Yu, and joined a restoration project in Shangtian Village.
  • Shen Le restored Little Oil Lamp, found missing child Bingbing by following its memories, and brought the lamp home after the village replaced its transformer.
  • Shen Le strengthened the mansion, survived a typhoon, captured a wolf demon, and gained a path toward work with the Special Affairs Department.
  • Shen Le investigated the Doll Cabinet and its puppets, found the elderly former owner, and began cleaning the Little Puppet’s wooden pieces.
Chapters 1–101 Read from Ch. 1

Arc 1Xiao Ling’s New Life

Shen Le restored a haunted puppet, named her Xiao Ling, and learned she had been keeping a lonely boy company. After he helped the boy regain feeling in his legs, Xiao Ling began performing for diners and students, while Shen Le continued exploring the Copper Fragment’s powers and took an interest in a couple’s discarded tools.

  • Shen Le inherited the Old Mansion in Zhuxi Town and discovered that restoring its antiques changed the Copper Fragment and strengthened his body.
  • Shen Le rescued a puppet from the river, restored it, and experienced memories of the old man and children connected to it.
  • After Shen Le named her Xiao Ling, she explained how Zhang Zihan had been punished for learning the erhu and jumped from a window after his family disbelieved him.
  • Shen Le secretly used the Copper Fragment on Zhang Zihan in the hospital, and the boy woke with feeling returning to his legs.
  • Shen Le performed for Zhang Zihan, whose father joined in with the puppet and reconciled with his son as doctors found signs of recovery.
  • Xiao Ling performed at Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant, where her presence drew away diners’ dark qi and eased their worries.
  • Gu Yulin and his junior brother helped arrange Xiao Ling’s performances at schools, and counselors later reported that students’ mental states had improved.
  • Shen Le learned that restoring furniture brought little progress from the Copper Fragment, then offered a couple a hundred yuan for their discarded woodworking tools.
Chapters 1–2525 summaries Read

Arc 2The Ink Marker’s Return

Shen Le restored the Ink Marker and learned through its memories about the Zheng family, then helped Zheng Xiaohua recover and mend his relationship with his wife. The Ink Marker took the name Zheng Mo and began repairing furniture as Shen Le discovered he could use colored auras to strengthen and restore objects.

  • Shen Le investigated the Ink Marker, repaired its worn parts, and used memories from the Copper Fragment to learn its history and improve his carving skills.
  • With Xiao Ling’s help and guidance from the Ink Marker, Shen Le carved and fitted a replacement Devil’s Work Ball, awakening the Ink Marker.
  • The Ink Marker led Shen Le to Zheng Xiaohua’s home, where it marked the doorway with ink lines, and Shen Le later learned the couple were descendants of its former owners.
  • Shen Le witnessed memories of Zheng Xiaohua and his wife arguing over their son’s schooling and Zheng’s back surgery, then welcomed them into his home when they arrived to install air conditioners.
  • When Zheng Xiaohua collapsed, Shen Le performed CPR and used the Copper Fragment until paramedics restored his heartbeat, and Zheng’s wife thanked him at the hospital.
  • The Ink Marker coordinated Shen Le’s tools to make a carved picture frame, and Zheng Xiaohua and his wife agreed that he would teach their son Linlin carpentry.
  • After accepting a paid furniture-restoration job from the Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant, Shen Le named the Ink Marker Zheng Mo and discovered how to channel colored auras into repaired wood.
Chapters 26–5025 summaries Read

Arc 3The Lamp and the Mountain Village

Shen Le developed his repair work and used his miniature estate to help Xiao Yu survive a lightning tribulation, then joined a restoration team in Shangtian Village. There he restored Little Oil Lamp, followed its memories to find a missing child, and brought it home after the village replaced its old transformer.

  • Shen Le repaired furniture for the Heavenly Fragrance Restaurant, whose lamb improved his cultivation, then began planning a furniture business with Little Ink Marker.
  • Shen Le built a model of the Old Mansion that let him monitor and influence the estate, and he redirected a lightning strike away from Xiao Yu with metal chopsticks.
  • Shen Le joined Senior Brother Zhuang's restoration project in Shangtian Village, where he bought a rusty kerosene lamp and discovered its memories and spirit were tied to the village's power outages.
  • Shen Le restored Little Oil Lamp and followed its silver path to Hundred Battles Cave, where he found the missing child Bingbing and led him back safely.
  • Shen Le helped repair the lamp while village specialists investigated the electrical faults, and he stopped its Artifact Spirit from interfering with their tests.
  • After the electricians replaced the old transformer, Shen Le comforted Little Oil Lamp and invited it to live with him, and it happily agreed.
Chapters 51–7625 summaries Read

Arc 4The Doll Cabinet Mystery

Shen Le strengthened his mansion, survived a typhoon, and captured a wolf demon, earning a reward and a path toward working with the Special Affairs Bureau. While restoring a haunted Doll Cabinet and its puppets, he helped find its missing former owner and began repairing a doll whose unusual construction might reveal its past.

  • Shen Le used the Copper Fragment to open two meridians, then helped reinforce the mansion before a typhoon struck and joined villagers in rescuing survivors and restoring the power supply.
  • Shen Le brought Little Oil Lamp to the mansion, where a wolf demon broke in and Shen Le subdued it with his strengthened hand and Little Oil Lamp’s electricity.
  • Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin took the wolf demon into custody and gave Shen Le a million exchange points, then helped him explore becoming an external member of the Special Affairs Department.
  • Shen Le agreed to restore confiscated artifacts and discovered a damaged Doll Cabinet whose troubled aura seemed connected to an elderly former owner.
  • Shen Le set up a workshop, dismantled miniature furniture, and found that fish glue allowed energy to flow through a chair as he experienced memories of Chen Haixing and Yingying.
  • Shen Le began repairing the Doll Cabinet, but Gu Yulin told him its former owner had gone missing, and the Little Doll led Shen Le to the woman’s childhood home.
  • The elderly woman recognized the Little Doll as one her brother had made, but Gu Yulin took it back after its energy readings became dangerous, and Shen Le discovered its unusual ball-jointed mechanism.
  • Shen Le researched and dismantled the Little Puppet, ordered restringing supplies, and began cleaning its wooden pieces while the Doll Cabinet remained clamped for repairs.
Chapters 77–10125 summaries Read
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