2005, Northwest Gobi. Feng Yangyang, a defector from the Shadow Clan, lives anonymously in Heishuigou Town and makes a living by repairing watches. She wears an ebony bracelet on her wrist and can sense death, but she is trapped in the organization's pursuit and the backlash of ancient artifacts. An old mining accident broke the peace, and she was forced to return to the world. She met former special forces Shen Fang and mural restorer Xie Heng. The three of them followed along the Hexi Corridor, Dunhuang, the Yellow River, and Lenghu, and uncovered the shocking shady story of the Shadow Gate's human trafficking, drug refining, and antiquities smuggling in the name of "yin marrow." Feng Yangyang went from being a murderous tool on the run alone to gradually awakening into a "river-locked girl" who protects the weak. In the end, she destroyed the Shadow Gate Main Altar in Tianmen Temple in eastern Tibet, at the cost of breaking the bracelet and cutting off the river, ending this crime that spanned twenty years. The novel uses the cold northwest scenery as the background, blends real cases with low-level suspense, and describes the world of a woman who lights a lamp in the dark, and two men who depend on each other for their lives.
Concept: How can an individual who has been completely objectified by the system re-claim his identity as a "human" in the ruins. An inspirational story about how to stand up again with your own strength when there is no way out.