Lin Mo, an ordinary young man, found a yellowed ancient painting at a flea market. In the painting, a lady's clothes are fluttering, and there seems to be a glimmer of light flowing between her eyebrows. One day, pink ripples suddenly appeared on the painting paper, and the lady walked out of the painting. With a promise made thousands of years ago.
Lin Mo's life has been turned upside down since then. He followed the painting spirit into a dimension invisible to ordinary people - in the Bian embroidery workshop in Bianjing, silk threads weaved mountains and rivers at the fingertips; in the tie-dye cloth shop in Nanzhao, the indigo juice smudged out ancient totems; backstage of the shadow puppet theater in Chang'an, the codes of dynasty changes were hidden in the shadows; deep in the caves of Dunhuang, the ribbons of the Feitian mural were being torn apart by invisible hands.
It turns out that overseas forces have long coveted the spiritual power of Chinese intangible cultural heritage, trying to tamper with the core of the skills and dissolve the cultural roots. From the misty south of the Yangtze River to the solitary smoke in the desert, Lin Mo and Hua Ling followed all the way, seeing through the disguise in the fine threads of Su embroidery, repelling the secret attack in the strings of the guqin, and catching a glimpse of the conspiracy in the hollows of the paper-cuts.
When ancient skills awaken in crisis, when the fate of the soul in the painting intertwines with the lives of young people, a battle to protect the genes of civilization is slowly unfolding on the land of China along the vein of intangible inheritance.
Come on buddy!