Tao Ran, a university history student, unexpectedly travels back to the Shang Dynasty, arriving in the Jiaoshan tribe with a thirty-day countdown to life and death hanging over him. To find a way back to the modern world, he joins forces with A He, a young female potter, to overcome hardships and dangers and uncover the secrets of white clay. After repeated kiln failures, they rise from the ashes, uncover a tragic story buried for twenty years, and together create Jiaoshan's own primitive celadon. Bound across three thousand years of time, the dragon kiln's blazing fire never dies, and the craftsman's original passion lives on.