**[In the sound of fate being torn apart, a silent confession spanning thirty years lies hidden]**
On the night of Jingzhe in 1995, nine-year-old Gu Nansheng, the only daughter of the Gu family, a silk dynasty in Gusu, watched her parents vanish in the courtyard of their century-old home during a thunderstorm. Her relatives treated her like a bringer of bad luck. Only the silver needles and silkworm manual her mother left behind in a rosewood vanity box kept her company as she grew up. Fifteen years later, she became the youngest antiquarian book restorer at the Shanghai Museum. While restoring a fragment of the Ming-dynasty Record of Heavenly Craft and Textile Production, however, she discovered that the mold stains had revealed a star chart of her childhood home.
Zhou Yanzhi, a newly wealthy financier, barged into her world with a gilt tea cup decorated with a mulberry motif. Once, as a childhood friend, he had folded mulberry branches to raise silkworms for her. Now, a miniature laser was concealed in his wristwatch, and his suit lining contained a bulletproof layer woven from heavenly silkworm silk. When he correctly named the location of the vermilion mole she deliberately hid in her hair, a bombing targeting an ancient silk manuscript swept them both into a national treasure mystery spanning three centuries.
**[The silkworm-shaped birthmark at her waist is bleeding, and the vermilion tattoo over his heart is burning]**
As they investigated, they discovered:
- The armillary sphere in the cellar of the Gu family home could manipulate the gene expression of living heavenly silkworms through the phases of the moon.
- The "insulin" Zhou Yanzhi injected every day was actually an antitoxin serum extracted from ninth-generation heavenly silkworms by Gu Nansheng's father before he disappeared.
- The rosewood vanity box that appeared at an auction in New York produced a quantum-entanglement-like resonance with the key around Gu Nansheng's neck.
When an attacker's coin dart reopened Zhou Yanzhi's old wound, drops of pale golden blood fell, and a blueprint of a shipwreck belonging to a Jiangnan grain-transport gang from 1987 appeared in the dirty water.
