Synopsis of A Century's Threads
Time span: 1958-2080, a battle for the survival of civilization spanning three generations
Core conflict: When the bronze technology in Dunhuang murals, the quantum network of the Beidou satellites, and the human genetic key converge, who has the right to determine the direction of civilization's evolution?
Main story:
In the winter of 1958, Dunhuang artifact restorer Cheng Bi fled the Kang family with her six-year-old daughter, Cheng Xue, splitting the "Temporal Reset Key" into three parts: etched into her daughter's bone marrow, hidden in a Mogao Cave mural, and sunk into an ancient well in the Sutra Repository. Her leap into the well became an anchor point in time that endured for a century.
In 1980, while restoring the Five Peaks of Mount Wutai, Cheng Xue discovered bronze gears hidden between the layers of the mural, triggering a quantum entanglement with scientist Zou Wenlin. The star map birthmark on Zou Wenlin's collarbone was an anti-entropy formula written by his father using Dunhuang star charts. Neither of them knew their meeting had long been foretold in the "Heavenly Secrets Box," which the Kang and Liao families had fought over for a thousand years.
On the winter solstice of 2080, Cheng Xue's body, frozen for sixty years, awoke in an underground palace on Sanwei Mountain. Faced with the Kang family's mechanical ascension legion and the Liao family's plan for a quantum Buddhist realm, she must work with Liao Yuheng, the leader of an undercover cell.
