Fang Kun, a graduate student in the Archaeology Department at Qinchuan University, discovers that a tomb in Yin Village on the White Deer Plain may be a high-ranking imperial mausoleum unknown to the world while helping track down cultural relics lost overseas. His advisor, Zhan Maochang, takes him to the White Deer Plain to investigate, but unexpectedly loses his life. Carrying out his advisor's final wish, Fang Kun grows into an archaeologist. The unknown tomb in Yin Village attracts the attention of the archaeological community, and Fang Kun is invited to join the investigation, where he reunites with his former lover, Luo Qing, now an archaeological team leader. Fang Kun brings up his old theory again, sparking controversy and public interest, and drawing the attention of cultural relic criminals.
