"When history becomes data that can be rewritten, can we still defend who we truly are?"
In 2028, humanity uses chips to store memories, only to fall into even deeper confusion.
Archaeologist Lin Shu triggers a thousand-year-old bronze compass in a Chu tomb and falls into the eerie "Mirror Realm".
Here, puppet troupes roam the nighttime alleys of Chang'an during the Tang dynasty, quantum codes are hidden beneath the masks of Chu shamans, and every crease in time and space conceals a deadly rule:
Never look directly at the faces of nobles. Never walk alone at midnight. Never answer the questions of the dead from history...
To escape the predicament, she is forced to ally with Jiang Lin, a tech magnate whose identity is shrouded in mystery. But she gradually discovers that:
The compass shard in his palm can control time and space, but it is also consuming his flesh and blood.
The snarky remarks of the AI assistant A-Jiu conceal fragments of her dead mother's consciousness.
And the leader of the Entropy organization, which is secretly carrying out the "Historical Cleansing Project," is none other than her father, who has been "dead" for twenty years.
Caught in a deadly puzzle spanning past and present, the three must find a balance between cold technology and mysterious occult arts.
Should they let their memories be imprisoned by data forever, or risk their lives to restore the truth that was erased?
When the star chart in the Chu tomb points to the heart of a conspiracy in the modern city,
a high-stakes gamble over the survival of civilization is already underway...
Theme: An exploration of what "truth" means. Are history, memory, and emotion all illusions? Can technology bear the weight of humanity?
