Lin Yan, a 28-year-old restorer of ancient books, inherited "Tingquanzhai" - a seemingly ordinary antique shop in a deep alley after his grandfather passed away. While sorting out the relics, he accidentally touched a jade from the Warring States Period, and the sadness and unwillingness of a general before his death in battle two thousand years ago emerged in his mind. Since then, he has acquired the ability to "touch objects and feel inspiration": when he comes into contact with ancient objects, he can sense the strongest emotional memories and unfinished cause and effect they carry.
If these obsessions are not resolved, they will gradually erode reality and cause various anomalies. Lin Yan was forced to become an "obsession resolver". With the assistance of university professor Shen Qingqiu, folklorist Zhou Mingyuan and others, he began to deal with a series of cause-and-effect commissions that spanned time and space: the pipa of a musician in the Tang Dynasty, the silver needle of a doctor in the Ming Dynasty, the diary of a scholar in the Republic of China... Each unit is a complete historical suspense story.
As his abilities increased, Lin Yan discovered that these scattered fragments of obsessions were faintly pointing to the same core - a secret about "reincarnation experiments" and "immortality taboos" that had been deliberately concealed by successive dynasties. And "Tingquanzhai" is not an ordinary store, it is the monitor and sealing node of this secret. What made him even more uneasy was that in the process of resolving his obsession, he began to frequently dream of the same ancient scenes, and the dead souls in those ancient objects seemed to know him...
