Guardian of the Nation

On the eve of their wedding three years ago, Su Long's beloved wife, Chen Yan, was framed, assaulted, and driven to leap off a cliff. She vanished without a trace. Su Long, a bastard son, knelt before his birth father in Yandu and begged him to avenge her, only to be branded a stain on the family and struck from the family tree. With nothing left to lose, he lashed out and wounded someone. Hunted like a stray dog, he had no choice but to flee to the borderlands of the Eastern Wilderness and stake his life on one desperate gamble. Three years later, on the first day of spring, the ice thawed and the waters warmed across the fourteen provinces of Great Xia. Chen Yan, her memory gone and her body disabled, stood bewildered at Anping Bridge. She stared blankly as Su Long, now a king and minister, returned to Yangzhou dressed in white and leading a hundred thousand black-armored soldiers!