In the chaos of the Republic era, a bloody mystery unfolds over porcelain.
In 1935 Beijing, antique dealer Yu Jinxiu reunites at his shop, Elegant Porcelain Pavilion, with his wife, Shen Nianqi, from whom he was separated seven years ago. She is now the wife of the powerful Meng Changming, has two children, and has forgotten their past completely. A meticulously plotted massacre once took the Yu family’s heirlooms and erased Shen Nianqi’s memories with drugs, imprisoning her as another man’s wife.
For seven years, Yu Jinxiu has bided his time, transforming from a frail scholar into a titan of the antiques world as he secretly weaves a web of revenge. When he discovers that his eldest son, Shuyuan, is his own child, and that traces of a celadon mark remain buried in his wife’s memory, a deadly struggle over the mysterious “Celadon Bloodmark Art” suddenly begins. The “Celadon Society” behind Meng Changming conspires with the Japanese army to traffic in national treasures. Shen Nianqi unexpectedly awakens an uncanny ability to identify porcelain, while the mystery of an ancient bloodline emerges in their youngest daughter, Shuyi. The family’s joys and sorrows become inextricably bound to the fate of the nation’s treasures.
Broken porcelain can be pieced back together, but how can a human heart be mended?
As memories awaken in the flames like porcelain transformed in the kiln, Yu Jinxiu must choose between revenge and protection. Shen Nianqi, meanwhile, will discover that the celadon vase she shattered in the Meng household was not the only thing in pieces: she has also broken open a prison of lies, carefully woven over seven years...
