Shen Yan, the young owner of Panjiayuan Ancient Pottery Studio, thought he would live guarding old objects for the rest of his life, but a piece of blood-green jade revealed the three-hundred-year-old fatal secret of the Shen family.
The grandfather who disappeared three years ago left behind half a piece of jade engraved with dragon patterns; the mysterious old man Lao Zhou suddenly appeared, bringing the other half of the jade and a yellowed old photo - in the photo, the grandfather in his youth stood in front of a bronze door deep in the sea of sand, with the lintel pattern perfectly matching the jade. What's even more weird is that Lao Zhou's left eye is a blue-tinted glass bead, and his grandfather's death letter clearly stated: "Don't believe Lao Zhou, his left eye was replaced through a door."
When the jade jewels are combined, the words "The door is opened three times, blood is the guide" emerge; the six-petal cinnabar mole on the left hand is actually the "living key" for the Shen family to open the bronze door; the Luoyang shovel on Lao Zhou's lower back is stained with fresh loess, and the legend of corpse sloughing deep in the sand sea makes this journey of searching for relatives a life and death situation.
When Shen Yan followed Lao Zhou on the chartered car to Lop Nur, he didn't know that the "elixir" brought out by the Shen family's great-grandfather from the Bronze Gate three hundred years ago was not a legend at all - it was something living in the gate. And the shadow with long red hair floating behind the door is waiting for the last "key" of the Shen family to reveal the truth behind its three hundred years of sleep...
There is no wind in the sand sea, but it makes the bronze door buzz; the jade huang is covered in blood, leading the living people into a conspiracy. This trip is about finding relatives, decrypting secrets, and confronting "living" secrets head-on.
