Yan Wenzhang, a graduate student in archaeology, led a preliminary survey of a Jin dynasty tomb that had been looted. He went alone into the robbers’ tunnel and happened upon a pair of jade pendants, one carved with spring waters and the other with autumn mountains. When he accidentally joined the two pieces together, disaster struck: the tomb collapsed, and he died on the spot. His soul, however, transmigrated to Suzhou in Pingjiang Prefecture in the late Northern Song dynasty. He became the new inhabitant of Shen Muwen, a young scholar who had just been killed by the Imperial Service Bureau, and was rescued by a craftsman and his daughter. To avoid trouble, the scholar assumed the name Lu Mingchuan and became a jade-grinding craftsman. Thus began a thrilling new life...
