When cultural relic restorer Lin Shutong opened the shirt of the man who was shot in the emergency room, his ex, Jiang Jin, who "died" in the explosion seven years ago, suddenly opened her eyes. The bite marks on her collarbone and the jade pendant around her neck were hot at the same time. The bronze fragments he brought were clearly engraved with her father's last words written in blood before he fell off the cliff.
With a custody order, the police put this "international fugitive" with a mechanical heart into her home. The countdown on Jiang Jin's watch stopped at 23:17 - the moment when the forensic center exploded when he disappeared. Late at night, the Xixia cipher text he copied spelled out "Your father is still alive", and the forensic report showed that the DNA detected in Jiang Jin's body actually came from specimens collected in the funeral home twenty years ago.
In the underground auction house on a rainy night, when Jiang Jin was stabbed with a poison-tempered dagger, Jiang Jin took the blade with his bare hands. The scar on his back from the fire scene perfectly matched the "stand-in" in his father's notes. When Lin Shutong discovered that all cultural relic restoration files contained human cloning codes, the jade pendant around her neck suddenly cracked, revealing a microchip - stored inside were the surgical records of synapses implanted in her as a baby.
Is the Pisces Jade Pendant the secret key to civilization or a prisoner of human nature? When three hundred clones of Jiang Jin jumped out of the mural, and when the mechanical heart's self-destruction countdown resonated with her pulse, Lin Shutong was shocked to realize: What was burned in the sea of fire that made her reborn seven years ago was never love, but the last moral bottom line of human civilization...
