In this game, losing means disappearing.

Believing it's the Fire element he has found, Abdelquoddousse Kailil from Morocco – a student at Peking University's School of Chinese as a Second Language – realizes the world of The Datong Code has its own rules.

Guided by Yuwen – played by Hou Shuyue, a student at Peking University's School of Journalism and Communication – and pursued by mysterious hunters, Kailil, or Kai, encounters Guangling paper-cutting and its master artisan Zhang Duotang, a representative inheritor of this technique that forms part of Chinese paper-cutting, an UNESCO-listed Intangible Cultural Heritage item.

Is it a painting, a sculpture, or something in between? A single touch could change everything...