Lin Yan, a graduate student in the Department of History, traveled to the northwest battlefield during the Zhenghe period of the Northern Song Dynasty and picked up a twelve-year-old Gaochang orphan girl from a pile of corpses. He knew that the Jingkang Revolution was coming, but he could not change history. All he could do was to survive in this world and give her a home.
From Linjia Village to Qinzhou City, from Tongyuan Army to the border fortress, two people with nothing used to collect shoes, dye cloth, copy books, and sharpen knives, sewing together a "home" stitch by stitch. Recruitment, deductions, collaboration with the enemy, and battlefields all turn people into numbers in troubled times, but they insist on living like adults within the numbers.
This peace of mind is homecoming.
