Legend has it that a "lantern holder" will appear every ten years, who can illuminate all illusions. Xie Changming, a young man, awakened the magical power of the "Eternal Light" at the age of fifteen and was known as the youngest lantern holder in a century. He traveled around the rivers and lakes, met Zhuying, an orphan who made a living as an entertainer, took in Liu Jinglan, whose family was destroyed, by the river, met Shen Cijing, the dandy young master of Zhujian Villa, accompanied Xiao Lingshuang, the princess who escaped from marriage, to walk around the world in disguise, and even had a distant journey with Pei Muyu, the successor of Yaogu, who was both good and evil.
In the first half of their lives, they were like the five-colored fireworks in the world, leaving the most splendid mark on the picture scroll of the world. Each of the six beautiful people went from enemies to acquaintances, from strangers to deep love, and there were signs everywhere that they would get what they wanted. Until "The Gods Condemned" - the demon who was suppressed by Master Xie Changming ten years ago returned and revealed a shocking secret: every time the Everlasting Lamp awakens, it uses the life of the person most cherished by the holder of the lamp as fuel. The reason why Xie Changming's master was able to suppress the demon was because he sacrificed his true love. Now, it is Xie Changming's turn.
When the truth is revealed, all the good things become irony. Zhuying fell into evil ways for revenge, Liu Jinglan believed that Xie Changming had ulterior motives for approaching her, Shen Cijing showed her sword to her best friend out of jealousy, Xiao Lingshuang turned against her lover amid national hatred and family hatred, and Pei Muyu returned to the Medicine Valley to refine the Wangchuan water that had forgotten everything. In misunderstandings and fights, they personally pushed each other to the end. In the end, in the decisive battle between good and evil, all of them were separated by yin and yang. Only Xie Changming was left holding the ever-extinguishing lamp. Looking at Zhuying who was pierced through the heart by his sword in his arms, he realized that his lamp, from the beginning, had illuminated the road to hell.
Intention: The most painful thing in the world is not that you can't get what you want, but that you get it and lose it, lose it and find it again, and finally find that you never really had it. The person holding the lamp illuminates others, but cannot illuminate his own abyss.