A Warring States jade pendant is a childhood token he gave to his mother, and it is also the key to unlocking time and space for thousands of years. Shen Mo, who was unemployed at home, accidentally touched the jade pendant collected by his mother, traveled through the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and became the bastard of the declining nobles of Chu State. On the verge of death, he mistakenly took the elixir of life, and from then on he embarked on a reincarnation of immortality but amnesia. Every time he was seriously injured and died, he would forget "who I am", leaving behind only the instinct of greed for money and fear of death, the ability to brag, and the fragmentary knowledge from modern times.
He hung out in the Jixia Academy, discussed Taoism with Confucius and Mencius, talked about weapons with Mo Zhai, borrowed the techniques of Legalism to make money, and used military tactics to save his life; he witnessed the brutal massacre in Changping, experienced the prosperity of Chang'an in the prosperous age, saw through the darkness of the officialdom of the Song and Ming Dynasties, and passed through the torrent of history for thousands of years, but never left his real name in the official history.
He was greedy for life and afraid of death, but he always risked his life to protect his brothers when they were in dire straits; he was addicted to money, but he did not want to see the people displaced, and repeatedly squandered all his family wealth; he lived for a thousand years and lost his memory countless times, only remembering the jade pendant that was close to his body and the lingering saying "the jade pendant hides the soul and brings the future."
It wasn't until 2025, when the white-haired man looked at his younger self in front of the window of an antique shop, that the mystery was finally revealed: this journey to immortality spanning thousands of years was never an accident, but a practice of "knowing yourself" that he had set for himself in the future.
When the fragments of memory were pieced together, he realized that the true meaning of immortality was never to live, but to recognize oneself; the purpose of wandering for thousands of years was just to find the way home.
