Su Xinghe, a doctor of history, was doing archaeology in Yecheng when he unearthed a gilt-copper box engraved with strange blood characters. When he continued to write the novels of the Five Dynasties based on the "Xiande Yibian" in the box, the words he wrote turned into deadly weapons--describing Zhou Shizong's Northern Expedition, the phantom of quantum cavalry suddenly appeared outside the window; writing the Chenqiao Mutiny, the Forbidden City's "Visiting Putu on a Snowy Night" actually oozed asphalt-like black blood. What's even more frightening is that he found that every word he wrote was accelerating the cancer of history: Zhao Kuangyin was trapped in a time and space cage by the movable type matrix, Li Yu held a 3D printed nuclear warhead, and the Khitan cavalry drove a steam mecha south to the Central Plains.
In order to prevent the real world from being swallowed up by history, Su Xinghe and the mysterious girl Lin Xiaoyue embarked on the dangerous path of burning manuscripts to determine cause and effect. They shuttled between the quantized "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and the cyberpunk Bianjing City, bid for past life memories in the Panjiayuan Ghost Market, and recaptured the tampered spark of civilization from the Ming Xiaoling Tomb Underground Palace. When he discovered that he was a traveler from the Song Dynasty, and that Lin Xiaoyue was actually the key to the star map left by Zhou Shizong, the million-word manuscript had turned into a guillotine on the neck - if he stopped writing, reality would collapse; if he continued writing, the Song Dynasty would never be born.
In this war of words that spans thousands of years, movable bronze types will bleed, historical figures can be resurrected, "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" hides a regicide crossbow, and "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" pave the battlefield of doomsday. When the countdown reached zero, Su Xinghe jumped into the torrent of movable type with his body and ink, but on the red wall of the Forbidden City in the new era, he saw the bloody ink marks oozing out of his unfinished ending...
