History can be rewritten, but everything erased will eventually return to exact its price.
During the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty, a young eunuch named Liang Shiye, sent to the palace as punishment for a crime, was assigned to the royal archives, the Huangshicheng. One late night, he heard the rustle of ink squirming deep among the shelves. The records from the Yongle era were changing their own words, and inexplicable annotations appeared in the margins.
He had glimpsed the dynasty's most terrifying secret: to prolong his life, Emperor Jiajing had learned the "Devouring History Technique" from the sorcery of the Southern Seas. Every true record erased, every person's entire existence wiped away, let him steal their years of life.
Beneath the Forbidden City, a historical anchor built on the Yongle Encyclopedia was ceaselessly devouring the memory of the Ming Dynasty.
At the risk of his life, Liang Shiye smuggled out the forbidden book Historical Anchor, the only one capable of recording the truth.
