From the book-burning night of the Qin Dynasty to the ashes of the Jingkang Disgrace, from the excavation of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang to the wave of intelligence in the digital age, Chen Yan has become the only witness to the rise and fall of Chinese civilization over two thousand years with his immortal body.
At the end of the Warring States Period, he gained immortality due to a cup of green light mineral spring, and since then he has wandered through the gaps in history. He once practiced medicine clumsily in the East City of Chang'an, recording the street rhymes of the common people; he witnessed the Battle of Kunyang and witnessed Liu Xiu's grand renaissance of the Han Dynasty; he opened a pharmacy in Bianjing and witnessed the ups and downs of Wang Anshi's reform and the pros and cons of the Chanyuan Alliance; he also pretended to be old in modern cities to avoid detection by AI and genetic technology.
As a doctor, he rescued the wounded in the war, recorded the changes in salt and iron policies from the perspective of a scholar, and watched the changes of dynasties and the evolution of civilization as a passerby. The ink marks on the pickled bamboo slips, the silk books on the mineral veins of the Western Regions, and the digital files on the encrypted hard drive are all the footnotes he left to the years. This is not only the wandering history of an immortal man, but also a living history of China connected from a personal perspective.
