Urban office worker Lu Jin awakens from a dream of a withered river.
Dragon-shed markings appear on his right hand. From then on, he can hear the earth breathing, and he is drawn into a hidden struggle for protection that spans a thousand years.
A bridge collapses and the earth splits, a deep pit at Sanxingdui, a vessel in Mianyang, a seal in the Alps... Someone spent twenty years laying a deadly trap, while someone else spent five years locking the old order in place.
When he finally tears away every disguise worn by the Round Table, the face in the depths of Guixu is within arm's reach.
The old order shatters, and a new current is born. He travels from the broken bridge to Iceland, becoming a bridge himself and using the twin bronze pieces to hold down the ley-line fissures beneath the entire continent.
The two bronze pieces unite, and the dragon-shedding transformation reaches completion.
The Round Table's upper echelon will arrive in Iceland within three days. He stands in the wind on the western coast, waiting for them.
The withered river does not run dry, and the road ahead is open. It is the end of the old era, and the beginning of a new one.
I failed twice and deleted all the old manuscripts in one fell swoop. With a lot of unwillingness, I returned to Tomato to write again. The memory of being repeatedly ordered to rewrite my compositions by my Chinese teacher when I was young is still clear. Now I finally understand that repeated overthrows and repeated attempts are never failures, but rather the stubbornness of a young man who refuses to give in. Get rid of impetuosity, settle down the state of mind, use the dry river as a guide, use the loach as a bond, and write a story about the transformation of a dormant person who goes against the will of heaven. This time, I don't want to be earth-shattering, I just want to write without regrets, win the approval of editors, resonate with readers, and live up to myself who always refuses to admit defeat. All undercurrent layouts and artificial chess games are original ideas. They are only embellished with tools and not written in routines. From the long-term outline, the three-line foreshadowing to the character arcs, this book is an original effort that has been repeatedly polished, just to tell the story of a small character who awakens himself, is unwilling to sink, and struggles against the odds to break the situation.
The subject matter is novel and I have never seen anything similar. The writing is good, but a little short. Good work, author!