In the spring of the seventh year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty, a strange phenomenon occurred in the Ziwei Hall of Tianqing Temple. When the nine-year-old Su Shi was studying with the Taoist priest Zhang Yijian, he witnessed the thousand-year-old dragon and tiger list emerging from the heart of a cypress tree in Han Dynasty. The gilt list carries the names of outstanding figures from past dynasties. When the names of "Wang Anshi", "Sima Guang" and other contemporary talents are displayed, the word "Su" at the end of the list flickers on and off like a candle in the wind. This prophetic scene has haunted the life of young Su Shi ever since.
Nineteen years later, Su Zizhan, who was famous in Bianjing, reunited with the Dragon Tiger List by the Jinming Pool. At this moment, the list had turned into a thirty-foot-long glass scroll suspended in the night sky. He witnessed with his own eyes that his name was swallowed by the black mist on the eve of the "Wutai Poetry Case". When the lone boat that was demoted to Huangzhou floated to Red Cliff, the figure of Cao Mengde reflected in the river moon eight hundred years ago actually overlapped with his own. Only then did he realize that the Dragon and Tiger List was originally a mirror of heaven and earth that reflected the destiny of literati through the ages.
From the Zhuxi River in Qingshen, Meishan to the palm forest in Lizhai, Danzhou, three unforgettable women witnessed his game with destiny. Before Wang Fu died, he used his blood to embroider the pattern of the broken list on the handkerchief. Wang Chaoyun completed the poems of enlightenment for him in the miasma of Huizhou. Together with the fragments of the "Book of Changes" that his sister Ba Niang clutched when she sank into the river, they finally inspired him to explore the secret in the Zen master of Jinshan Temple. It turns out that the prophetic power of the Dragon and Tiger List is the spiritual fire tempered by the literary souls of the past dynasties in suffering.
In the midsummer of the third year of Yuanfu, the sixty-six-year-old Su Shi saw the Dragon and Tiger List turning into a galaxy in his boat returning to the north. When the moonlight from Gutang Bridge in Changzhou touched his gray temples for the last time, the memorials that once illuminated Bianjing, the wine that soaked Huangzhou, and the swan songs carved in Red Cliff all turned into stars all over the sky and fell into the South China Sea.
