Jiang Nanfang, a top modern history student, unexpectedly transmigrates into the turbulent final years of the Qing dynasty.
He had hoped simply to survive the chaos, but an ancestral jade pendant entrusted with guarding imperial tombs draws him into the astonishing secrets of the Eastern Qing Tombs.
When modern archaeological knowledge meets ancient mechanisms and mysticism, and scientific reason clashes with feudal superstition, he must protect the imperial tomb's thousand-year-old treasures. More than that, amid foreign powers closing in and troubles mounting at home and abroad, he must carve out a way for himself and those around him to survive.
This is the story of a modern man who uses knowledge to rewrite his fate among the imperial tombs of the Qing dynasty.