At Hengdian World Studios, something strange is happening in Lin Mo's supermarket.
The night before, his girlfriend of four years teamed up with a crooked businessman to set him up, saddling him with 200,000 yuan in debt and getting him blacklisted across the industry.
At dawn the next day, strange items appeared on the supermarket shelves: a suit of bright armor scarred by battle, a sharpened ring-pommel saber, and strings of Hongwu-era cash coins.
Then a young woman in a dark blue dress pushed open the door.
Clutching two copper coins, she asked timidly, “Shopkeeper, do you have anything to eat that can stave off hunger?”
Lin Mo handed her two cups of instant noodles and received two scorching-hot copper coins in return.
He watched the girl disappear into the warehouse at the very back of the supermarket, frozen in place.
The crew next door was in the middle of shooting The Glorious Ming Dynasty.
The production manager who had framed him was basking in triumph, with Lin Mo's ex-girlfriend of four years in his arms.
Lin Mo touched the two Hongwu coins in his pocket, then looked over the shelves full of genuine antiques.
Suddenly, he remembered what the girl had said before she left...
“I am a palace maid who attends the Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace...”
The Eastern Palace. The Crown Prince.
He thought he was beginning to understand.
