In 1937, the war broke out. Chen Jian, a young scholar from a family of architects, was forced to get involved in a secret war that transcended the smoke of gunpowder. His battlefield is not in the streets and alleys, but among the cornices, beams, pillars and foundation stones.
He accidentally discovered that China's ancient buildings actually hide a thousand-year secret that protects the fate of Chinese civilization. His opponent, Japanese architectural aesthetics master Rin Takahashi, tried to systematically cut off the cultural heritage of this land with the cruel aesthetics of "destruction is eternity."
From the ancient pagoda of Peiping to the ancient city of Xi'an, from the Dragon Vein Mountains to the Holy Land of Bashu, this is a desperate game with architecture as the password and mountains and rivers as the chessboard. Chen Jian and his companions must use up their lifelong learning in front of the fallen palace and under the crumbling beams to leave the last unbroken backbone for the future of the nation.
This is an epic story about protection and destruction, craftsmen and warriors, civilization and fire.
