A picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" depicts the prosperity of Bianjing; a volume of "The Legacy of Xuanhe" hides so much blood and tears.
Cultural relic restorer Shen Yanjun accidentally obtained a fragment of a copy of the ancient Song Dynasty book "Tokyo Menghualu". The moment he opened the page, his consciousness was pulled into the world of the book - not Bianjing in the peaceful and prosperous era, but the capital city with surging undercurrents during the Xuanhe period. Mi Fu, a doctor of calligraphy and painting, Chen Dong, a Taipei student, Li Shishi, a famous prostitute, Lin Lingsu, a Taoist priest... Historical figures take turns to appear, and everyone is struggling to survive in the whirlpool of the times. The bell of Jingkang's shame is about to ring, and can he, an "outsider" from nine hundred years later, find the possibility to change the outcome in the cracks of history?
Every page in ancient books is a living world, and every paragraph of text hides forgotten truths. Go into ancient books, see history, and touch the Song Dynasty that flourished but died on the boundary between fiction and reality.
