What should we do when history is rewritten?
The organization known as the Chronology Chaos tears open three pivotal eras at once: the Qin dynasty, the Tang dynasty, and the Republic of China. The foundations of civilization hang by a thread. Three guardians plunge upstream into the torrent:
Qin Mo sinks into the crumbling Qin palace, preserving the earliest genes of its institutions amid laws and conspiracies; Tang Xiao is swept into the night of the Xuanwu Gate Incident, guarding the possibility of a golden age amid bloodshed and the strokes of the historian's brush; Su Man stands amid the tide of enlightenment, discerning the path to awakening amid sparks of thought and hidden flames of poison.
Their mission is not to rewrite history, but to serve as anchors and ensure it follows its destined course. The price is that their memories are swallowed by their era, until they become history itself.
This is a quiet vigil for the survival of civilization. When every story has sunk into the depths of time, will anyone, thousands of years from now, be able to read the gentle yet resolute resonance that crossed the millennia in the marks on bamboo slips, the remnants of the Dunhuang manuscripts, and the gaps between faded lines?
