Sixteen-year-old Lin Xiaoman put half of his faded student ID card in his pocket and drove a dilapidated roller coaster out of the mining smoke in the Taihang Mountains. From then on, his life was speeding down a dark road from which there was no turning back.
The muddy land reclamation in the south failed to give him stability, and the lies of the MLM organization about getting rich almost swallowed up his remaining sanity. In order to survive, he was forced to crawl into the cold underworld of the ancient tomb, risking his life in exchange for a glimmer of hope amid agencies and betrayals. What was brought out from the tomb were not only cultural relics, but also secrets and curses like gangrene attached to the bones.
With his fierceness and vision tempered in desperate situations, he actually made his way through the treacherous antique black market. Just when he thought he could finally climb out of the quagmire, everything in the past strangled him like a shadow - the companion who mysteriously disappeared in the ancient tomb reappeared with a fatal secret, the desperate pursuit of the MLM organization was once again approaching, and Su Wenqing, an expert from the Cultural Relics Bureau, had quietly locked his eyes on this rapidly rising "expert".
The smoke from the mines, the cold wind from the tomb passages, and the undercurrent of the black market eventually converged into a storm that swept everything. Lin Xiaoman stood in the center of the storm, with his left hand a shortcut to a clean life but betraying his faith, and his right hand a dead end to fall into the abyss but retaining a trace of conscience.
Will this journey back, paved with lies, betrayal and cultural relics, lead to complete destruction or desperate redemption? When he finally got to the core of the truth, he discovered that what is deeper than the ancient tomb is the human heart, and what is more precious than cultural relics is the 16-year-old boy himself who has been buried long ago but has never really disappeared.
