Li Bihua's wonderful writing has written a moving and legendary love story spanning three generations of ancient and modern times under the flow of time and space. More than 200 years before Christ, Qin Shihuang was tyrannical and the people were living in misery. The alchemist Xu Fu deceived the emperor's trust and recruited many boys and girls to Penglai to seek the elixir of immortality. Meng Tianfang (played by Zhang Yimou), a doctor who was given an official title and a sword for saving Qin Shihuang, fell in love with the recruited girl Han Dong'er (played by Gong Li) at first sight. She tasted the forbidden fruit and was sentenced to death for deceiving the emperor. Before the execution, Dong'er secretly put the elixir of immortality refined by Xu Fu into Meng Tianfang's mouth, and threw herself into the kiln to die for love. Meng Tianfang was sealed in mud as a figurine and placed in the imperial mausoleum. In the 1930s, Dong'er was reincarnated as a third-rate movie star Zhu Lili. The crew went to the vicinity of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum to shoot a movie. Lily discovered that the big star she had a crush on, Bai Yunfei (played by Yu Rongguang), was robbing the imperial tomb. In order to silence her, Bai Yunfei flew Lily into the air with him. Lily accidentally broke the dashboard and landed in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, which revived Meng Tianfang, who had been sleeping underground for 2,000 years, and she started fighting with Bai Yunfei and other tomb robbers who broke into the tomb...