In 2026, Xu Mingzhu, who was studying ancient architecture and cultural relic restoration design at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, refused to tamper with the historical materials of the Chinese workers in World War I. When repairing the copper buckle of the red-headed ship, he accidentally traveled through time and fell into the 1946 Werewolf Castle in Rome.
The Moretti wolf tribe stabilized its out-of-control wolf transformation by erasing the names of ninety-six overseas Chinese workers. The Chinese girl Liu Fuyao was imprisoned in the castle since she was a child, and her mother died tragically at the hands of the clan leader.
The three sacred copper buckles hide the secret of returning home: the red-headed ship locates time and space, the phoenix buckle restores the destroyed name, and the dragon-head buckle opens the only way home. There are two choices in the ceremony, either sending Xu Mingzhu back to modern times, or permanently retaining the identity records of all unknown Chinese workers.
Every time a Chinese worker's name is restored, the time cracks in Xu Mingzhu's palm will deepen. When twelve cracks are full, he will completely disappear in two eras.
The two went to Paris hand in hand to find the Phoenix Bronze Buckle, confront the cruel wolf Marco and the struggling Luca, and combined with the Holy See and the old housekeeper to piece together all the evidence that the wolves had tampered with files and murdered Chinese people. On the way, they were estranged due to the concealment of ritual rules, and seventy-two missing names were recovered on the banks of the Somme. After court trials and civil strife among the wolves, three sacred objects were collected.
In the end, Xu Mingzhu gave up the opportunity to return to 2026, allowing the ninety-six wandering Chinese workers to have their own historical names at the expense of his own time mark.
In 1948, in Rome's Chinatown, two people opened a cultural relic restoration workshop. While repairing the antiquities, they also sorted out overseas Chinese batch files, guarding three copper buttons to pave an indelible path home for all the souls of foreigners.
