While restoring a thousand-year-old painting late one night, cultural relic restorer Shen Nanzhu awakens Pei Jinghong, a sleeping female general trapped inside it. History calls her a rebel general, but she says, “I waited until my dying breath for the order to return south.”
The way to restore her place points to the missing painting The Map of Returning Rivers and Mountains. But the truth they uncover is this: returning to one's place doesn't mean going back into the painting. It means staying in the human world. And a wrongful conviction from a century ago and a sacrifice from twenty years ago have already bound their fates together.
She says, “You're trapped by other people's rules. You're more like someone in a painting than I am.” She says, “In this life, you will help me recognize the human world, and I will protect the land for you.”
Two female leads, mutual salvation, and powerful women standing against one another. A journey home spanning a thousand years begins with a lamp lit in the dead of night.
