Go Back in Time and Be Behind the Scenes

Since the early days of Yao, Shun, and Yu, Gu Qian has been walking in the world.​ He is not a prince or general whose name has been recorded in history, but he is a chess player hidden in the gaps of time. He secretly decided the alliance at the Tushan meeting, laid the foundation for the changes in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and fine-tuned the chess game in the wars of the Qin and Han Dynasties. From the prosperity of the Tang and Song Dynasties to the changes in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, those figures who are famous in history and the decisions that affect thousands of years are all guided by his invisible hand behind the scenes. He has seen the budding sparks of civilization, witnessed the rise and fall of dynasties, used loneliness as armor, and time as a chess game, silently controlling the direction of history, but never left his name in any history book.​ Time passes to modern times, and Gu Qian transforms into an ordinary walker in the city. His fingertips pass through the cultural relics in the museum and the historical documentaries on the screen. His eyes reveal the vicissitudes of five thousand years. When the torrent of modern technology and information impacts the established trajectory, and when the dusty past intertwines with the current puzzle, he must not only make up for his past regrets from the perspective of a "past", but also deal with new variables as a "modern person".​ On one side, beside the bonfire in ancient times, he guided the ancestors towards civilization with his whispers; on the other side, under the neon lights of modern cities, he reversed the undercurrent of the times in a silent place. Historical figures are his chess pieces, thousands of years are his battlefield, and his only obsession is to make the long river of civilization flow in a better direction - even if the cost is to forever be an "outside of history" that will not be remembered.​