"Embers of the Age" is based on the three-thousand-year life of the immortal Ji Yu, telling the story of an unlucky person who "doesn't always go well" wandering and struggling in the long river of time.
Ji Yu has been known as the "disaster star" since the Zhouyuan period. He was expelled from the tribe at the age of fifteen for stealing sacrificial millet cakes. For the next three thousand years, he has been trapped in the curse of "nothing can be done": feeding horses in the Shang capital, being kicked by horses, and destroying pottery; The goods are called "unlucky ghosts"; he makes a living by repairing umbrellas in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, but even the woman who helps him deliver medicine falls because of him, and the pear tree he manages to protect is also struck by lightning; when he carries goods at the Bianliang dock, he breaks the porcelain and loses the goods, so he can only make a living by the dirtiest work.
Over the long years, he witnessed countless people being born and growing old, but he always stayed young, with loneliness following him like a shadow. But the pastries Su Wan handed him and the old beggar gave him half of the steamed buns. These short-term warmth became the glimmer of light in his troubled life. The work does not exaggerate the fantasy of immortality, but instead focuses on Ji Yu's mortal dilemma - even with infinite time, he still has to face failure, loneliness and regret, but always clings to the obsession of "there is hope while alive" in the "unlucky" fate, revealing the ordinary people's struggle and resilience under the appearance of immortality.
