In 20XX, as spiritual energy gradually returns to the world, Ye Qingyi blinks awake after choking on a mouthful of filthy water.
After sleeping for a thousand years, he finds the world transformed. Ye Qingyi can't find his home, can't take human form, and has become illiterate. He feels completely out of place amid pollution and a torrent of steel.
Badly injured, Ye Qingyi steels himself and makes a contract with Yun Yichuan, who picked him up. From then on, he embarks on a journey to work, find his way home, and search for the dragon veins.
His homeland has long been lost, and the dragon veins he devoted himself to following have turned into a meticulously carved dragon skeleton. Indignant, he realizes that things have long since gone beyond what he expected.
To return home, he can't just keep his head down and work hard. He must also trace things back to their roots, catch the real culprit, and uncover the truth from a thousand years ago.
But he never expected the culprit to be right beside him, or that the person he once followed had never truly left.
After drifting apart among the clouds, a thousand years passed like flowing water.
Asked his surname, he was startled by their first meeting. Hearing his name, he recalled the face from the past.
They were once forced to forget each other, but from now on, they have a long time together.
*Chiru (ru): From The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Book of the Southern Mountains: "The Ying River rises here and flows south into the Lake of Jiyi. It is home to many chiru. They look like fish with human faces and sound like mandarin ducks. Eating them prevents scabies." They are a kind of mermaid. In this story, they are imagined as looking like axolotls. You can look up pictures online. In short... they're harmless, dopey, soft, adorable little creatures that can easily kick the bucket for all sorts of reasons, including poor water quality.
*An ancient chiru bottom with a fiery temper × a seemingly easygoing dragon-vein top with a strong possessive streak
Theme: Cherish life and protect the environment
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