Under the lights of the museum, Chen Mo stared at a bronze tripod from the Warring States Period - he buried it in the ground with his own hands two thousand years ago.
From an alchemist in the Qin Dynasty to a modern hermit, he gained immortality due to Xu Fu's "failed" elixir, but he could only walk alone in the long river of history. He witnessed the fire of Afang Palace and the loss of Dunhuang scriptures. In every catastrophe of civilization, he changed from a bystander to a "shadow" secretly guarding civilization.
Until he met Lin Xia, a graduate student who was obsessed with tracking down the "Guardian of Cultural Relics". The diary of her great-grandmother in her hand records the past events of guarding the national treasure with the "immortal" during the Anti-Japanese War; her method of restoring cultural relics is exactly the same as that of a female Dunhuang painter in the Tang Dynasty.
When the moonlight of the ancient tomb in Luoyang illuminated thousands of years of secrets, Chen Mo finally spoke: He had passed on historical facts on bamboo slips with the female historians of the Han Dynasty, copied in the caves with the painters of the Tang Dynasty, and accompanied the scholars of the Republic of China to escort treasures in the flames of war... But every time, he could only watch them grow old.
"This time is different." Lin Xia turned to the last page of the diary, "Great-grandmother said that the fire has not been extinguished."
From lonely watch to inheritance mission, a journey of protecting civilization spanning two thousand years has begun.
Intention: The fire of civilization is eternal in every delivery