In the present, Erhi finds herself a prisoner of the AIU, her only hope of rescue is the wheelchair bound professor. In the past, Yue has grown old. Before he dies, his only wish is to see Erhi one last time. All the while Silkworm draws closer. As history unravels, will the star crossed lovers ever meet again?…
At precisely midnight, on a railway track at the foothills of the Tien Shan mountains, when a boy heard a girl calling for help, the course of human history changed forever.All Yue wants is to go to art school in Beijing. Instead, he's stuck with his father who's building a railway in the middle of nowhere. But when Yue discovers a mysterious portal, his life changes beyond his wildest imagination. Transported 800 years into the past, Yue finds himself thrown into a world of bloodshed and warfare. His only hope of survival is a fierce young Mongol called Erhi, the daughter of a concubine who dreams of becoming a great warrior. Thrown together by a twist in time, the boy from Beijing has no choice but to follow Erhi as she seeks to prove that even a girl can win the respect of Genghis Khan. But all is not as it seems. Yue is not the only one to have discovered the portal. Who is the sinister Mr J and what is the Anomaly Investigation Unit? Why are rival political factions spilling blood in the streets of Beijing and how come time is unravelling along the length of the Silk Road?What happens if you don't just rewrite history, but change it altogether?…