Su Yan, an antiquities restorer, accidentally awakens the spiritual body in the paintings of Shen Yanqiu, a female painter from the Republic of China, and becomes involved in a Xuanmen dispute that spans a hundred years. Every ancient relic is a memory container, and the restoration process will solve historical unsolved cases. The two major forces, the "Que Keepers" and the "Guixu Society" hidden in the modern city, are engaged in a life-and-death game around the millennium conspiracy of the Jiuli Sect.