On a night of torrential rain, food delivery rider Yang Zhen steps into a gloomy old mansion. The dragon-patterned pendant passed down through his family reveals the apparition of a thousand-year-old shikigami, while an order for hot and sour noodles becomes the turning point of his fate. With his treasure-appraising dragon eyes, he sees through illusions; with his Myriad Treasures Casket, he commands the world. He wields cultural relics as blades, cutting through the Black Phoenix Society's sprawling scheme. He enters a blood-bound marriage contract with the icy CEO of the Shen family, and when her life lamp is about to go out, he sustains her life with his blood. The pendant burns against their skin, binding their lives and deaths together.
From hidden histories in fragments of the Yongle Encyclopedia to the surging dragon qi concealed in pieces of Along the River During the Qingming Festival; from holographic contests at the Ghost-Eye Auction House to rivers and mountains weeping blood within the Dragon-Locking Formation, every national treasure is a fragment of China's soul. He uses a Lu Ban lock to hold up a collapsing secret chamber and borrows the Classic of Mountains and Seas to shatter the shadow of an eight-headed serpent. Amid the tension of a marriage of convenience, he writes a passionate epic about an ordinary man protecting his nation's heritage and defying fate.
