This work originated in 2017, when Yan Xing visited the former editorial office of The Renaissance, a literary monthly established by students at Peking University in 1918. This visit inspired him to conceive a story about architectural space, construction sites, and timeless treasures. He took some unpolished jade blocks excavated from the construction site of a reinforced-concrete building as a clue, imagining them as receiving recognition and praise in competition with various metallic materials. The resulting sculptural installation dramatically connects the stones with the pendant lights in the corridor of the office of The Renaissance. Under the shine of those artificial masterpieces of design, the stones come back to life, demonstrating the relationship between aesthetics and imitation. In the stones’ pursuit of light and the storage of light in the lamps lingers a contrast, just as materials are always seeking their aesthetic position in the displacement of memory and history.