Twenty-Four Histories of a Person

"You can think of this novel as a walk through two thousand years of time and space. The pace is not fast, but every step steps on the bones of history and the hearts of people." In the winter of the thirty-seventh year of the First Emperor, the alchemist Li Du went to sea with Xu Fu's fleet to search for immortals, and was hit by a storm and stranded on a deserted island. In order to survive, he mistakenly ate an ancient creature called "Time Gu" and became immortal and his appearance lasted forever. Ten years later, when he returned to his homeland, what greeted him was not the emperor's reward, but the death knell of the First Emperor's death. From that moment on, he was trapped on a journey with no end. He had seen Xiang Yu's fire burning Afang Palace, heard Li Bai's drunken sword energy, touched the pages of books that were burned during the Jingkang Incident, and learned what "human world" is from the bloody mud of Yangzhou for ten days. Zhang Liang, Li Bai, Su Shi, Yuan Chonghuan... He met the brightest souls of every era, and then when he woke up from his "returning sleep", he was greeted by the news of their deaths. He is like an island of time, washed away by the waves of generations. But he didn't sink. He changed from an alchemist eager to share secrets to a silent witness; from a suave poet and drinker to a "civilized night watchman" who rescued classics in troubled times; from a passerby of history to inheritance itself. When he finally saw the tea cup he held thousands of years ago through the glass in the 21st century museum, he finally understood—— Qianqiu is not the thousands of years of a god, but every spring and autumn that countless mortals have gone through.