At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the world was in chaos, the imperial power was overthrown, and the people's hearts were in turmoil.
"Lin Jingzhi", a young man from the capital, came from a humble background and just wanted to settle down and live in the royal palace.
However, in the year of the Reform Movement of 1898, he accidentally copied a secret memo "Burn But Not Destroyed", and his fate was changed from then on.
The bells in the palace were ringing at midnight, the eunuch's corpse had paper in its mouth, and the words in blood appeared on their own.
He witnessed the palace being haunted, the Boxers possessing people, foreign religions secretly offering sacrifices, and revolutionaries carrying curses...
But what scares him the most is not the war in the world, but the dark power that always controls all living beings at every turning point in history.
He doesn't want to uncover the truth, he just wants to survive in troubled times.
But in the end, he witnessed deaths, betrayals, sacrifices and souls that never rest.
——"If there is a ghost in destiny, it is ourselves."
