Tan Jing, a graduate student in the Department of Archeology, has been attracted by the secret bronze mirror passed down by his family since he was a child. The strange star patterns on the back of the mirror always create unknown secrets in his dreams. When her mentor died unexpectedly in an "academic accident" and the notes left behind pointed to the mystery of the disappearance of Heishui City in Xixia, the "synaesthetic" ability hidden in her body suddenly awakened - she could glimpse the broken past by touching ancient objects with her fingertips. In order to find out the truth, Tan Jing took the bronze mirror deep into the Badain Jaran Desert, but unexpectedly fell into a conspiracy that spanned a thousand years: the mysterious organization "Shadow Shuttle" was coveting the key to the "Mirror Realm" behind the bronze mirror, and her family was actually the last bloodline to guard the key. From the maze of mechanisms in the ancient desert city to the eerie sound of the shipwreck in the South China Sea, to the time and space cracks in the ice crevices on the plateau, Tan Jing formed an expedition team with the mechanical genius Fa Xiao and the mysterious guide to travel through historical fragments and deadly traps. When the bronze mirror reflected her own face that overlapped with that of the Xixia priestess from thousands of years ago, she finally understood: the so-called adventure has always been a confrontation with fate, and the abyss in the mirror contained the ultimate answer to the survival of civilization.
