Shen Zhao never thought that a broken bronze mirror bought from Panjiayuan would send her back from Beijing in 2023 to the Tianbao period 1,300 years ago.
She became a sixteen-year-old peasant girl in a small village in the south of the Yangtze River. His father disappeared while doing corvee service, his mother died of illness, and she and her young brother Aman were the only ones left at home. Two acres of thin fields, a drafty hut, and the indifferent eyes of the villagers.
This was the Tang Dynasty that she had never studied before - not the numbers and systems in historical materials, but the real people. They are struggling, tenacious, kind and ignorant, and they are trying their best to survive in the torrent of the times.
Shen Zhao used modern knowledge to open a private school and teach children how to read; he used plant ash and soap locust to make soap, in exchange for his first pot of gold. She stocked up on firewood before the cold winter came, used lime to disinfect when the plague spread, and supported the family step by step when no one was optimistic about it.
She thought the time travel was just an accident, but later she discovered that fate had already marked the price in the dark.
A wandering Taoist priest told her: This bronze mirror came from Kunlunxu, and it brought people back and forth for hundreds of years thousands of years ago. The key to the return journey lies in the Guixu Mirror on the coast of the East China Sea.
To reply or not to reply?
When the prosperity of Chang'an City is before her eyes, when like-minded friends reveal their true feelings, when the children she has raised start calling her "Sir" - Shen Zhao finally understands:
The real way back is never to return to the past, but to find the meaning of one's existence.
Intention: Not to go back, but to find.