But to give you a proper story, I’ll creatively interpret it as: – or three narrators/jade storytellers – who must piece together one forgotten truth.

It sounds like you're asking for a story based on the Vietnamese phrase – which likely refers to Three Jade-Hued Commentaries or Three Gems of Narration (a play on thuyết minh = commentary/narration, and ngọc = jade/precious).

One night, he found a reel labeled “Ba Viên Ngọc – Ba Tiếng Nói” (Three Gems – Three Voices). The film showed three men – all named Ngọc – standing before a giant banyan tree. But the audio track was silence. Chang Ngọc Thứ Hai lived in a Saigon apartment stacked with dictionaries. He believed every silence had a word hidden inside. When shown the mute film, he touched the screen and whispered: “They are not speaking Vietnamese. They are speaking Ngọc ngữ – Jade tongue – a lost dialect of storytellers.”