Lin Yan, a tourism student on the verge of unemployment, fell into the Silk Road of the 13th century with a carton of embarrassment.
The beginning is hell - language barrier, penniless, and the money has not been paid back.
And his "tour guide" is Marco Polo, a famous man in history who is currently being made things difficult for the soldiers defending the city.
One is the verification party who is driven crazy by modern performance, and the other is a legendary businessman who ventured into the East with his imagination.
The two joined forces and started a "mutual trust and deception" across time and space:
He taught Marco to see through blackmail in the market, and Marco took him to join the caravan;
He used Zippo to make fire to ward off enemies, and used modern first aid knowledge to deliver babies;
He pointed at the mirage and said "that's physics", but Marco wrote down "suspected silver mine" on the parchment...
From Dunhuang to Samarkand, from Constantinople to Venice.
They witnessed the despair of treasures being destroyed, redeemed their lives in the slave market, and crawled through the sewers to survive in the flames of the fall of the empire.
In the torrent of history, the identities of tour guides and tourists have quietly reversed——
Marco weaves the legend of the "Golden East", but on this road, Lin Yan finds something more important than going back: a home that needs to be protected.
Intent: A gentle crackdown on historical narrative