Cultural relic restorer Shen Gui's life was originally simple and regular - repairing damaged ancient relics, coping with the blind date arranged by his mother, and living alone in Nanxu.
Until that rainy night, she picked up a man in Luo Xing Mountain who was covered in wounds and spoke like an ancient man.
His name is Zhou Yu. Either he has the same name or the same surname, or he is that Zhou Yu.
No one would believe this, and it took Shen Gui himself a long time to accept it. But there is more and more evidence before her: a shoulder injury that cannot be healed, abnormal carbon 14 data, a hosta that was broken in two but had an abnormal temperature. Things from 1,800 years ago appear in modern strata.
In order to find out why he appeared here, the two set out from Nanxu and traveled up the Yangtze River to the ancient battlefield of Wulin, the mountains of Wuling, and an isolated Chen village. Everywhere we go, there is another layer of mystery: an ancient tree that was burnt to charcoal but still alive, a pool of hot water that shouldn't exist, a genealogy that has been passed down for dozens of generations, and a bodyguard who never came back.
All clues point to the same person - Xiao Qiao.
She disappeared on the night of Chibi. Eighteen hundred years later, her traces are scattered across half of China. Zhou Yu wants to find her final whereabouts, and Shen Gui wants to unravel the scientific explanation behind these abnormal phenomena. The answer they are each looking for may be the same.
This is a story about searching. Find someone, find an answer, find a way back - or find a reason worth staying.
Purpose: Love is restoration and perfection
