The Golden Register

Jiang Jingshan, head of the Jiang family, is thirty-eight and sits firmly in a seat coveted and feared by countless people. To the outside world, he is known as “Jiang Jiuyuan.” But within the family, the distant relatives and collateral branches, the people who bow and scrape before him, prefer to use a more ancient name behind his back: “Tan.” Jiang Jianyi is twenty-six, an unremarkable member of one collateral branch in the sprawling Jiang family, and its most brilliant genius in nearly a century. A biologist specializing in neuroscience and gene editing, he caused a stir in the international academic world at the age of twenty-three with a paper on the inheritance of memory proteins across generations. His parents often said that when he crossed the Bridge of No Return, Granny Meng must have forgotten to make him drink her soup, so the memories of his past life hadn’t quite faded. Otherwise, how could anyone remember things that happened when they were three? Back then, his parents still called him Jianyi. One is a player moving the pieces; the other has seen through the game. Between the abyss of power and the secrets of life, they are destined to be bound together in a struggle for life and death.