When Chen Hao, a young clerk at an antique shop, was forced to enter a deep tomb to save his gravely ill grandfather, he thought it was merely a deal that traded his life for money. He never imagined that a strange bronze belt hook would drag him into a mystery spanning a thousand years.
Deadly mechanisms in ancient tombs, unfathomable struggles of human hearts, the mausoleums of feudal lords erased from history... He and a band of desperadoes forged a fragile alliance on the brink of death and fought a desperate battle against the fanatical collector Zhao Rui'an. Yet colder than funerary treasures was the truth of history, and deeper than any tomb was the abyss of human nature.
When the secret of the legendary “immortality” shed its philosophical veil, and the team's trust crumbled before the lure of immense wealth, Chen Hao realized they were seeking more than buried treasure: they were also searching for their own consciences and moral limits. This is a struggle for survival in the shadow of history, and a soul-searching question about protection and redemption. When the dust finally settled, he chose to seal his experiences inside the Guanshan Notebook. But would the whispers from the past let him truly return to the world of the living?
