Volume One: Lin Shen, a cultural relic restorer, and Xi Sheng, a spirit inhabiting a painting, are swept into a murder mystery when an ancient painting undergoes a strange transformation. Human blood seeps from the Northern Song dynasty's Journey Through Spring Mountains, and the dead reappear in the painting, mirroring the fate of a woodcutter. Using quantum technology to trace back a thousand years, the pair uncover a secret art that uses human bones for ink and vengeful spirits for curses. Xi Sheng carries the past of a seal that imprisoned a murderous zither, while Lin Shen is bound by a hidden poison. From suspicion and testing one another to entrusting their lives to each other, what they uncover is not only a relic mystery spanning a century, but also a passionate love buried by time. When ancient paintings devour the living and bronze mirrors recreate the dead, only love can become the blade that cuts through the prison of cause and effect.
