Piano prodigy Lin Xiaosheng touches the ancestral guqin Withered Wood Dragon’s Roar and is forced into a life-and-death pact with Xie Qinghui, a thousand-year-old qin spirit. Feeding the qin with his blood and sustaining the spirit with music, he is forced into the hidden world of the Way of the Qin, unaware that the instrument holds the secrets of a dynasty, the truth behind his father’s mysterious death, and an astonishing talent sleeping within his own bloodline. When the ancient qin music sounds once more, obsessions that transcend time and space, strange rivalries in the Way of the Qin, and watchful eyes hidden in the shadows of history… all come rushing toward him.
