History can be tampered with, but who will pay the price of tampering with history? **
Lin Shen, a graduate student in the Department of Physics, discovered a bronze fragment engraved with strange patterns while sorting out his father's belongings. When the fragment touched the crescent moon birthmark on his shoulder, he was thrown back to 213 BC - the scene where Qin Shihuang burned books and harassed Confucians. He must return within 24 hours, otherwise he will be trapped in history forever.
This is just the beginning.
Lin Shen soon discovered that history is full of "unnatural" traces:
- Wang Mang mixed modern management concepts into his new policy
- The mature smallpox prevention and control technology in the Song Dynasty was suddenly lost
- The industrial revolution that was supposed to start in China was inexplicably transferred to the UK
He formed a team with his childhood sweetheart Chen Mo, who can sense the memory of cultural relics, and the mysterious historian Zhao Qinian to track down the truth. They found that all the tampering pointed to the same purpose: to prevent a "time solidification technology" that will be born in 2025.
The founder of this technology was Lin Shen's mother who "died in a car accident".
When Lin Shen finally returned to the day his mother was murdered, the murderer he saw was actually his own self from the future.
A desperate mirror image that turned dark after countless failed attempts to save its mother, determined to prevent the birth of technology in the most extreme way.
**Now, Lin Shen faces the final choice:**
-Kill your mother, stop technology, in exchange for a "peaceful" future?
- Allowing technology to be born, risking history will be eternally solidified?
- Or looking for a third way - a dangerous road that has never been traveled before?
