In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, in the smoke-filled land of China, a shocking tomb robbery was brewing in the dark. Warlord Sun Dianying's iron hoof broke through the tranquility of Malanyu, Hebei Province, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the Qing Dong Tomb that had been sleeping for two hundred years. When explosives blasted open Cixi's underground palace, the decaying luxury and the curse of history were awakened at the same time - the corpse of the empress dowager, the luminous pearl in her mouth, and the secret scrolls of the Liao Dynasty hidden deep in the coffin were intertwined into a tomb robbing puzzle that spanned dynasties.
Jiao Si, a tomb-robbing prodigy from Guangzhou, was forced to get involved in this conspiracy. Possessing the ancestral tomb robbing skill of "seeing, hearing, asking, and knowing", he can read the location of the tomb in the stars and distinguish the thousand-year-old earth in the soil. When he stood in front of the broken coffin, he realized that the prey this time was far more terrifying than he imagined: the emerald watermelon was implicated in the dark network of the Republic of China politicians, the Khitan copper plates pointed to the older imperial tombs, and the strange sounds coming from the depths of the underground palace were like the souls of all the tomb robbers over the past century crying.
From the Dongling Tomb to the Khitan Imperial Tomb, from the troubled times of the Republic of China to the anti-Japanese war, Jiao Si dealt with various forces - the warlords wanted the treasure, the Japanese wanted the dragon's veins, the tombkeepers wanted revenge, and the underground party wanted to protect the treasure. When he finally understood the warning of "three generations of restlessness" left by his grandfather, he had already fallen into a curse cycle that spanned three hundred years: from Qianlong's Yuling Mausoleum to Cixi's Dingdong Tomb, from Yang Liangzhenjia's robbery of Song Tombs to Sun Dianying's bombing of Qing Tombs, every generation of tomb robbers are repeating the same mistakes.
