Zhuo Xiuyu, a history student, woke up and found that he had traveled to Dayue Kingdom, which has only sporadic records in history books. He originally wanted to show off his talents with modern knowledge, but he was shocked to find that this was a top-notch ancient civilization that overwhelmed his knowledge.
Glazed street lamps illuminate the city that never sleeps, water-powered looms buzz, the work-for-relief system is perfected, and envoys from all over the world respectfully come to study in the DPRK. Here, his modern knowledge was of no use. Instead, it became a perfect protective color, allowing him to blend in safely as a "transparent man" and become an ordinary recordkeeper in the Royal Archives.
Zhuo Xiuyu meticulously describes every inch of the splendor of this prosperous dynasty with pen and ink. However, under the iron heel of foreign enemies brought about by continuous natural disasters and rebel generals, he could only watch helplessly as the splendid civilization collapsed like a building. The royal family set themselves on fire, corpses littered the fields, ancient books were burned, and technology was eradicated.
He aged slowly due to the characteristics of time and space, and was forced to walk alone, witness, and record during the hundred years of darkness and three hundred years of arduous recovery after being enslaved. It was not until thousands of years later that archaeologists finally lifted up the dust of history, and the truth he guarded and this lost top civilization reappeared under the sun.
This is a story about a time traveler who cannot change history, but spends his life witnessing and guarding the fire of civilization. When glory becomes final, the record itself resists forgetting.
