After being laid off, Chen Yan worked as an apprentice in an old painting shop, earning 2,800 yuan a month and taking care of one lunch. His friend Li Yuan is worse off than him and is considering whether to become a real estate agent.
By chance, Li Yuan's distant cousin dug out a bronze item from the foundation and asked them to help see if it was worth anything. Chen Yan went - he had worked on bronzes in college, purely out of interest. It was a bronze bean from the Western Zhou Dynasty, with a pan-horned animal face engraved on the lid.
He didn't notice that when the shutter was pressed, the eyes engraved on the copperware lit up.
From then on, he could "see" what remained in the bronze decoration. The strange beasts in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" are not myths, but existences sealed in bronze vessels by the ancients. And those seals are loosening one after another.
Two young people, pushed by life, were involved in a chess game that spanned thousands of years.
