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In 203 BC, on the shore of Chaosou, Xiang Yu almost killed Liu Bang with a cold arrow. This arrow not only tore up the Chu-Han peace treaty, but also planted eternal suspicion in Liu Bang's heart. After proclaiming himself emperor, he turned fear into power, filled the palace with bronze mirrors, and imprisoned heroes on charges of treason. The soldier Han Xin created a chess set out of charcoal and scrap wood in the darkness of Tianlao. The thirty-two chess pieces are a metaphor for the bloody history of Chu and Han: the generals never meet each other, due to hidden arrows in the chasm; the generals cannot cross the river, alluding to the emperor's check and balance; the soldiers can only advance but not retreat, and their fate is fulfilled. The chess was completed, Han Xin died, but the chess game spread among the people. From the entrance of Weinan Village to the marketplace of Chang'an, from the frontier fortress military camp to the elegant rooms of the court, the square-inch chessboard has gradually become an invisible annals of history. Every chess move is soaked in blood, and every boundary is engraved with intrigue. In his later years, Liu Bang wiped out a chess game full of pieces, but he knew that this game would always be etched in people's hearts - that cold arrow that crossed the chasm eventually turned into a thousand-year-old killing game, repeated in every game.

After my second uncle went on a business trip, an old lady wearing a patchwork gown often appeared at the end of the bed in the old house. The second aunt was horrified until she recognized the clothes among her grandmother's belongings - it was her grandmother who had died three years ago. It turned out that grandma was worried about her grandson who was being treated harshly, and his soul returned to his hometown. This horrifying encounter revealed the second aunt's clumsiness and pain as a stepmother, and also quietly changed her. From fear to understanding, from severity to tenderness, a guardianship spanning life and death finally allowed this family to find a warm home. Some love never leaves.

Lin Wan, a tour guide on the Sichuan-Tibet line, had an extra line of instructions on her roster out of thin air: "Assign a single room to the innermost side of your cell to avoid the crowds." She did so and saw the Tibetan woman wearing a moon-white Tibetan robe and a pine stone hairpin. But after one night, her pattern and the line of words disappeared completely, and no one in the whole group remembered her existence. Only Lin Wan's palm still retained the biting coldness that touched her fingertips. In order to find the truth, she stepped into the depths of the snow-capped mountains, only to uncover a past that had been sealed for half a century - an avalanche and an unswerving wait until death. It turns out that some promises can transcend life and death, and some longings will be remembered by the mountain breeze for you.

In 785 AD, in the chaotic times when Tang and Tibet were fighting for hegemony, the Eastern Girl Kingdom at the foot of the Mordo Sacred Mountain became a fragile glimmer in the cracks. The queen's heir, Langsamedo, is responsible for the crisis warned by the astrology and the mission of the matrilineal ethnic group. She must not only deal with the coercion of Tubo's marriage and the restraint of the Tang Dynasty, but also resolve the obstruction of internal conservatives. Carrying the "Secret Words of Mountain Patterns" token, she dealt with spies, envoys and rebellions, guarded the lifeline of the ethnic group in the salt well, and explored the legacy of her ancestors in the sacred mountain. From the bloody alliance in the hot spring canyon to the desperate counterattack of the watchtowers, Langsameduo teamed up with Duoji Zangbu, the Tubo tribute man who abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side, to move the tribesmen along the three rivers with the strategy of "dividing veins and preserving species". In the end, the fire of matrilineal civilization transcended the war and took root and continued in Jiarong, Kangba, and Lugu Lake areas, responding to the ancient prophecy of "comb teeth sprouting" with tenacious inheritance.