In 1894, in the smoke of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, Lin Yong, the captain of the warship Jingyuan, fell into the Yellow Sea, and his body became a container that spans time and space. The heroic spirit of Xin Qiji, the iron-blooded poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the residual consciousness of Lei Xiaoqian, a modern social beast, actually coexisted in his body. From the stormy waves of the fall of Weihaiwei to the artillery fire of the Wuchang Uprising, the two souls control this body full of cracks and navigate the turbulent times with misplaced wisdom. The bodies made of the bones and blood of the Beiyang Navy are eating away at their souls, and every battle leaves the rust marks of distant ships as their flesh and skin collapse. At the dawn of the Year of 1911, when the Eighteen-Star Flag tore through the haze of Wuchang, their remains were shattered into sparks and annihilated in the river waves, leaving only the gun bolts engraved with the code and sank to the bottom of the river - until a hundred years later, archaeologists unearthed the remains of iron embedded with simplified poems and seals, and the gates of time and space suddenly opened again...
