This is a suspense epic of Tao culture rooted in modern cities.
The story begins with a series of falling cases in an old residential building. The four deceased people who did not know each other showed exactly the same smile at the moment before jumping off the building - not despair, not relief, but as if they had finally waited for an answer. During the investigation, detective Su Wanqing found cultural relic restorer Li Tianran, a young man who suffered from the terminal illness of "severing Qi pulses" but could see cause and effect. The two teamed up to uncover a mystery that spanned nine hundred years - Chen Suwen, a girl with double pupils in the Song Dynasty, was falsely accused of drowning, and her resentful soul was sealed in a stone tablet and refined into a magical weapon. A sacrificial ceremony thirty years ago released this burden again.
As the investigation deepens, the hidden world of the nine meridians of the Dao Sect emerges: the conspiracy of the Dharma Veins, the tempering of the Instrument Veins, the sealing of the Formation Veins, and the balancing method of the Heng Veins - each has its own "Tao" that it believes in, as well as its own limitations and paranoia. In the process of pursuing the truth, Li Tianran gradually discovered his life experience, the secrets of his master, and the ultimate plan hidden behind everything to try to escape the cause and effect of heaven.
This is not a story about good versus evil. It talks about "restoration" - repairing cultural relics, repairing cause and effect, and repairing people's hearts. The burden of heaven is not an illusory retribution, but a law more precise than gravity: every debt owed must be repaid; every crack is worth repairing. Not with punishment, but with understanding; not with obstruction, but with sparseness; not with destroying evil and building heaven, but with accepting imperfections, repairing the flaws, and moving on.
