On a rainy night, the blood stains on the bronze compass turned into a backward hour hand.
When Ye Zhiqiu, a cultural relic restorer, was chasing the international thief Jiang Yu, he uncovered a conspiracy that spanned seven centuries. A bronze box unearthed from the Yuan Dynasty Privy Kiln contained a "star essence" that could tamper with history. When Jiangyu's Sha Yan tattoo was stained with Ye Zhiqiu's blood, the star map from seven hundred years ago was resurrected over the city of Nanjing, and every star track pointed to the obliterated reality:
On the astrological platform in the 23rd year of Zhizheng, the ancestors with the same appearance of the two men once faced each other with swords; under the mask of the Venice Carnival, the crazy restorer wrote the Western Xia secret mantra with indigo blood; the Buddha head at Angkor Wat whispered in the moonlight, spitting out the name of the real murderer of Ye Zhiqiu's family extermination case...
This is a fire-stealing journey that plays against time.
Ye Zhiqiu is holding an ancestral rhinoceros horn comb, which can read the memory of cultural relics but has to pay the price of memory; Jiangyu's collarbone is tattooed with a life-devouring sand swallow. The closer he gets to the truth about the star marrow, the more dragon scale-like corpse spots appear on his skin. They were forced to go with a group of "abnormals": the immortal who lost his memory after speaking the bloody prophecy, the secret translator who sealed the souls of the dead with cheongsam, the genius hacker who transformed the brain into a cultural relic database...
When all the seven-star curses were lit up, the golden-masked man on top of the Purple Gold Mountain thrust the bronze sword into the earth.
Deep in the basement of Nanjing Museum, one hundred thousand cultural relics trembled at the same time. At twenty-three fifty-nine, Ye Zhiqiu saw himself holding up a bronze compass in Jiangyu's pupils - this time, would he choose to seal history, or tear apart time and space to save everyone?
Intent: All tampered history will reveal the bloody truth in the cracks of cultural relics