Song Tuozhi, a descendant of a book-collecting family, guards the ancient town's stele rubbing hall. His affordable rubbings benefit poor scholars, a move that draws monopolistic suppression and malicious reporting from the collector Su Cangjia. Together with his stonemason apprentice, he travels across mountains and fields to visit ancient steles, proving his innocence with top-tier rubbing craftsmanship. Su Cang's daughter secretly learns stele rubbing. After a fake-artifact mystery is unraveled, everyone drops their opposition and joins forces to let precious steles step out of private collections, bringing the thousand-year ink and fireworks into ordinary life.