Hu Shanshan is a well-known young calligrapher in the contemporary era. She is especially good at copying Chu Suiliang and Zhang Xu. The ink on her fingertips can blend strength and elegance. One rainy night, while trying to rescue an authentic ancient calligraphy that had been soaked by water leakage in her studio, she accidentally touched a copper buckle with a hidden pattern on the scroll. In an instant, thunder struck down, and the fragrance of ink and water vapor intertwined into a vortex, dragging her into the Suzaku Street of Chang'an in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
When she first arrived in Chang'an, she was dressed in rags and spoke "vernacular" and was regarded as a madman. She only had superb calligraphy. She was accidentally seen by Pei Yanzhi, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Pei Yanzhi was born in a calligraphy family and specialized in regular script. He had a cool personality and had an almost paranoid enthusiasm for calligraphy. When he first saw that Hu Shanshan's writings had both ancient style and a kind of free and easy agility that he had never seen before, he was shocked. He was even more curious about her unheard-of remarks such as "Yan Jin Liu Gu" and "Song Dynasty Four Schools".
One is a modern soul with a memory of a thousand years of calligraphy history, and the other is a talented man from a family who stands at the peak of calligraphy. From the initial suspicion and temptation to the gradual understanding while grinding the inkstone, Hu Shanshan not only strives to win a place for women's calligraphy in an era when men are superior to women, but also gradually sees her destiny through time and space in Pei Yanzhi's gentle and firm eyes - perhaps, her encounter with him is an affectionate dialogue that spans thousands of years in the history of calligraphy. When the wind in Chang'an blew over the wet ink on the rice paper, when he held her hand and taught her to write the most authentic Tang Kai script, love and calligraphy had already become inseparable marks in time.
