Hug Jianren

In the thirty-fourth year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, the book burning order was issued. All records other than those recorded in Qin were burned. Those who dare to hide "Poems" and "Books" will be tattooed as Cheng Dan. Those who occasionally say "poems" and "books" abandon the market. On the outskirts of Qufu in the State of Lu, farmer Xi Sang threw a set of fake bamboo slips into the fire in exchange for the "innocence" of his family. But there was another set hidden in the secret room of the beam of his house - the 305 "Book of Songs" hand-engraved by his father, which had been hidden for ten years. His father died in prison because of "an occasional poem". Before his death, his mother pinched his arm and repeatedly told him: "If you forget those words, you will live." Xi Sang did as he was told. He pretended to be illiterate for ten years, until a late-night visit from a white-haired old man broke the disguise. The search team is coming, and the fakes can't be hidden. He must carry this set of bamboo slips that he has hated for half his life and embark on the escape road to Mount Tai. Along the way, Mohist knights, exiled Confucian scholars, folk witch doctors - all kinds of people broke into his journey, and those poems that he desperately wanted to forget began to come to his mind at the most dangerous moments, saving his life but also torturing his heart. He doesn't want to be a hero. He is just an ordinary person who was "cursed" by poetry and books. He was caught between the survival of civilization and tried to pay off a debt and then go home to farm. But those words engraved in his bones never meant to let him go.