Sun Lei, the owner of "Zanggu Zhai" in Dongdian, unexpectedly received a wooden box from the Republic of China without a sender. The moment he opened the box, it seemed as if he had also begun a nightmare that had been lingering for hundreds of years. Everyone who has come into contact with the wooden box will, without exception, see the same plaintive cheongsam woman in their dreams. Strange car accidents, mysterious warnings, shadowy surveillance... The peaceful life was completely broken. In order to save himself and to unravel the woman's cry, Sun Lei relied on his extraordinary perception of ancient objects to trace the source of the wooden box. One clue after another led him to the "Shen Family", a once wealthy family in Shanghai, and to a period of love and murder in the Republic of China that was covered in blood. When the jigsaw puzzle of the truth gradually became complete, he discovered that he had already been involved in a life-and-death chess game that spanned a century and touched people's hearts.
