By a twist of fate, Xu Qiu'an, a student of archaeology in China, falls into the real ancient world.
He thought events would unfold according to the chronicles of history, with the rise and fall of dynasties and the vicissitudes of the world as clear and traceable as ink on bamboo slips.
But when mythical creations, seen only in fragments of ancient legends, appear in his life, Xu Qiu'an realizes that he has stepped into a parallel world with its own original course of history.
The threads of fate have already quietly wound around him, dragging this anomaly from the future into a grand scheme spanning a thousand years.
The road ahead is shrouded in mist. Will he become the variable that rewrites everything, or is he already a pawn in a game whose outcome was decided long ago? Caught between history and myth,
Xu Qiu'an resolutely chooses to become the lone wanderer of this thousand-year age and bring the grand scheme to an end...