Lin Yan, a graduate student in the Department of History, is a "Tang fan" who is obsessed with the history of the early Tang Dynasty. He spends all his time in museums studying epitaphs and historical materials of the Tang Dynasty, trying to fill in the small gaps that are not recorded in the history books. A sudden accident in the museum caused him to be caught in a strange white light while protecting the rubbing of the epitaph of Zhang Anshi, the county captain during the Zhenguan period, and he was transported to the Tang Dynasty in 643 AD - the seventeenth year of Zhenguan that he had been haunting in his books.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty had just experienced the turmoil between the government and the opposition due to Li Chengqian's rebellion. The streets of Chang'an were still filled with the unique fireworks of the early Tang Dynasty. The cornices of the Daming Palace in the distance were glowing with light gold in the sunlight, hiding the foreshadowing of the coming prosperous age. Lin Yan lives as a refugee in Taiping Village on the outskirts of Chang'an. Without his modern identity and materials, he can only rely on more than ten years of historical accumulation to survive in this real Tang Dynasty.
He has seen the straight-shaft plows recorded in history books, listened to the Tang Dynasty spoken language with a simple charm, and looked at the outline of Chang'an City in the distance. This era that he could only touch on the page has now become a world where he wants to take root. From the unique perspective of a history lover, he will personally experience the changes in the early Tang Dynasty: he will get a glimpse of the prosperous background of the Tang Dynasty in his daily farming life, and touch the various aspects of people's livelihood in the early Tang Dynasty while interacting with the villagers. He may also inadvertently participate in those historical events that he has studied repeatedly, becoming a unique imprint of this splendid era.
This is a time-travel journey for history lovers. In the collision of modern knowledge and ancient society, a different story embedded in the prosperous age of Zhenguan is written.
