Jian Xi is an antique restorer who is only twenty years old, and she is also a fragment torn apart by fate.
She set out to the Western Regions to repair a broken revolving lantern from the Qing Dynasty and to piece together the truth behind her mother's death. But she didn't expect that the trip would be completely out of control.
First, she woke up during a thunderstorm night and found herself holding a throwing knife at a man's throat - something she would never dare to do.
Then, she woke up on the border, next to the arrogant and unruly racing driver Jiang Qi. She became the "A Zhuo" who dared to love and hate, and rode wildly with him, thinking that this was where the rest of her life would be.
Lu Chen, a doctor of folklore who was searching hard at the rear, clutched the compass left by his mother in his hand.
The compass once pointed to Jian Xi, but now it failed in a desert. Because the gentle girl he loved was "dead", and standing in front of him were different faces that were sometimes vicious, sometimes childish, and sometimes cold-blooded.
When the shady curtain of the smuggling group opened, and when the seven personalities stared at each other in the broken mirror, Lu Chen finally understood:
This is not a simple road trip, but a war about love and survival.
"I fell in love with your sub-personality, are you coming back?"
"No," Jian Xi looked at the seven shadows in the mirror, smiling and crying, "I won't come back."
Purpose: Jianxi's seven-fold personality symbolizes the self (weak, rebellious, rational, and innocent) that modern people are forced to separate under social discipline. The purpose of the novel is not to "cure" or "destroy" the sub-personality, but to "integrate" it. It explores how a person, after trauma, no longer rejects the dark side of himself, but reconciles with the shadows of the past and becomes a complete individual containing all complexities.