In the first year of Huangyou's reign in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yellow River broke through Shanghu, and the river moved northward. Refugees from several states flocked to Bianliang carrying household registrations, deeds and genealogies. The secret pavilion in the palace took in a batch of old documents from Hefang that had been soaked in mud and water. Among them was a fragmented copy without a title: every time a page was added, a past event that had been omitted from the official history would be revealed; every time a piece of ink was read, the book repairman Xi Zhaoye would see the world that the page had once illuminated.
He originally just wanted to keep the paper and ink shop left by his master, but he found an old Yellow River route that had long been abandoned among the remaining pages. It is not a map to a treasure, but a road that may save tens of thousands of refugees or uncover an old case. Some people want to erase the river from the book, and some want to exchange it for power. But what Xi Zhaoye wants to do is to restore the mountains and rivers scattered in classics, inscriptions, and folk oral narratives page by page to their original appearance.
When an ancient book called "Records of Mountains and Rivers" gradually became complete, he realized that it was never the words that were missing in the book, but the people who had not been written into the history books.
