Yanqiao Chronicle

The ancient bridges, rivers, old alleys, and ancient houses in the Jiangnan water towns are not just carriers of human fireworks, but nodes of ancient "water veins." What flows in the water veins is not ordinary water, but "memory energy" - the memories retained by all things in the world, ranging from the change of dynasties and the change of river courses to the small joys and sorrows of the world and the sound of rain on the eaves, are all turned into memory energy and precipitated in the water veins. People who can perceive, access, and guide the memory energy are called "passengers." They walk on the boundary between memory and reality, overcome the out-of-control memory energy, and protect the balance of water veins. But power always has a price: the stronger the memory energy that the ferryman summons, the easier it is for his own memory to be swallowed up by the water veins, and he will eventually become a "boat" with no self and only wrapped in memories, forever trapped in the torrent of water veins. The real mission of a ferryman is never to rewrite regrets, but to keep memories - even if those memories are full of pain, they are also proof that a person has lived.