In 1987, when Chen Dunyi, a young scholar from the Academy of Social Sciences, was sorting out the files on the "Missing Oracle Bones Case of the Yin Ruins", he discovered that a batch of tortoise shells that recorded abnormal celestial phenomena had been mysteriously lost during the war. Relying on the fragments of the "Lianshan Yi" passed down from his family, he inferred that the matter was related to an organization that had been hidden for thousands of years - the "Limai Sect".
This organization is convinced that history has deviated from the "right path". Since the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, it has used Feng Shui as its blade to secretly tamper with the Chinese dragon vein in an attempt to lead civilization to a "perfect trajectory" set by them. In order to stop this crazy plan that gambles on the national destiny, Chen Dunyi was forced to walk out of his study and form a special team.
The team includes Zhou Tieshan, a military geology expert who believes in "studying things to gain knowledge", Mo Ziqiu, an engineer who is proficient in ancient mechanics, and Su Qingdai, an astronomy researcher who is good at deciphering star map codes. They call themselves the "Dragon Hunting Bureau", and they are not pursuing the treasures in the tombs, but the tampered historical truth.
From the Dunhuang secret chamber to the sunken ancient observatory in the South China Sea, their contest with the Limai Sect is a confrontation between academics and ideas. When the final answer to the mystery is revealed in Tianchi of Changbai Mountain, Chen Dunyi must make a choice: accept a designed "perfect future", or embrace the true history that is full of uncertainty but belongs to hundreds of millions of people?
This is a war of scholars with the entire country as a chess game.
