Lin Wan, a student from the Department of Archeology, personally cleaned Shangguan Wan'er's epitaph during her internship. When her fingertips touched the inscription of "Pepper Blossom Ode", the vast space and time suddenly opened up - she became the most helpless "bystander" of that legend.
She "saw" how Wan'er broke away from slavery and stepped into the center of power with a song "Colorful Book of Resentment"; she also "saw" her first glimpse of Princess Taiping under the palace wall. She knows the ending of all history: Wan'er will die, the princess will be defeated, everything is a foregone conclusion.
However, when Lin Wan returned to modern times, she found that her fingertips had left indelible marks, and the thin gold handwriting belonging to Shangguan Wan'er flowed from her pen. That "spectation" was not an illusion, but a mark. She was forced to inherit Wan'er's talents, memories and unfinished obsessions.
The torrent of history is rolling forward, and two souls separated by thousands of years are intertwined. Lin Wan must re-enter the dead game with full knowledge and powerlessness about the outcome. In the stormy waters of history, can two women destined for tragedy find a different way out for each other?
Intention: Looking back and resonance across time and space. It shows women's political ideals, tenacity, struggle and mutual respect in the cracks of history, and looks for the glimmer of breakthrough in the established destiny.