Passing On the Flame of Chinese Heritage

Gene encoding engineer Gu Hongyuan discovers a non-coding sequence hidden in Xia Huaxin's DNA. It does not participate in protein synthesis, yet it carries a series of ancient memories: stories of love and pain, life and death, and of those who existed and then disappeared, all never recorded in writing.

To bring these stories to light, Xia Huaxin embarks on one soul journey after another.

The first story begins when her dying grandfather asks her to write a character. She writes