Lu Ming, a reporter for the television program Archaeology, is livestreaming the Zhaoling Mausoleum during a thunderstorm when lightning strikes his camera. By chance, it becomes quantum-entangled with the past, when Zhaoling was being built in the tenth year of the Zhenguan era. His camera becomes a "time anchor" connecting the ancient and modern worlds. The livestream is projected in real time onto the Tang Dynasty construction site, where the workers regard it as a divine oracle. Through his lens, he can also witness the actual construction work from a thousand years ago. Even more astonishingly, he can subtly alter the course of history by filming, but every intervention triggers a violent nosebleed: the price of time's rejection.
Meanwhile, at the Tang Dynasty construction site, Li Wuxia, a mute woman disguised as an artisan, is actually an archaeologist from the year 2023. After an accident, she transmigrated into the past and became a "patchworker": she must secretly repair deviations in history to prevent civilization from collapsing. She realizes the divine oracle comes from the future and that history is being deliberately altered. Separated by a thousand years, the two face off: one manipulates livestream comments in the open to change fate, while the other secretly stitches up the cracks in time.
As Lu Ming's livestream skyrockets in popularity, he unlocks the ability to interfere for longer periods, but also attracts Yuan Tiangang's suspicion. Meanwhile, artifacts from Zhaoling in a modern museum begin to undergo eerie changes: Tang Dynasty pottery figurines test positive for nuclear radiation, and tiny signal transmitters are found hidden inside the layers of tomb bricks... In the end, they discover that it all stems from a "historical correction consciousness" formed deep within Zhaoling's underground palace: a higher-dimensional entity born of the temporal magnetic field, intent on devouring all variables to preserve a single timeline. Lu Ming and Li Wuxia join forces to uncover the truth about the time anchor and make the ultimate choice between saving the Great Tang and protecting civilization.
