The story takes place in the Year of the Snake and revolves around a thousand-year-old tomb. The Wu family has guarded a shocking secret for generations: they are not ordinary tomb keepers, but vessels for the ancient snake king to shed his skin and be reborn. Every sixty years, the snake king wakes up and swallows the men of the Wu family to complete the molt. The protagonist Wu Xiaoxie accidentally got involved in this fateful battle after his grandfather passed away. While uncovering the truth about his family, he also embarked on the road to solving his fate.
