Amu from Luoxia Village is a village guard who has been called a "fool" by the villagers for twenty years.
He was stupid and ignorant, and stayed under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village day and night, watching the clouds roll and relax, and listening to the chirping of insects and birds, which became an unmovable scenery in the village. No one knows what kind of ancient contract is hidden behind the three words "village guardian"; no one believes that this fool who can't even remember his own name will be the last barrier of the village.
Until that stormy night, a wisp of black air penetrated between his eyebrows, and severe pain tore through his chaotic consciousness.
When Amu woke up from the pain, there were more fragmented images in his mind - burning villages, broken chains, and a vague voice repeating: "I can't hold on anymore... It's time to wake up..."
He was still the silly looking Amu, but deep in his eyes, there was a bit more clarity that even he didn't understand. The old locust tree began to "whisper" frequently, and there were always dark shadows wandering outside the village at night. Those ghosts and ghosts that once only existed in the old man's stories were approaching this border village step by step.
It turns out that what the village guards guard is not luck, but seals; what the old locust trees bear is not growth rings, but shackles.
When the former "fool" picks up the rusty iron ax passed down from his ancestors, and when the sleeping contract awakens in his blood, can he hold on to this land and those who call him "fool"?
And as the seal loosens, a wider world and older secrets emerge - the village guardians are never just the village guardians of Luoxia Village.
A story about protection and awakening quietly begins under this old locust tree.
