When someone is born carrying a mission, their emotions are like fish and bear’s paw: they cannot have both, and may not be able to have either.
Xiao Fengnan often wonders whether, if he were not a prince of Beizhao, he could live in peace with the woman he loves.
Su Yulin wonders too: if they had no identities or grudges between them, could they have been an ordinary married couple in this world?
But reality is not so kind. When Su Yulin sets out to slaughter her enemies, Xiao Fengnan cannot embrace and comfort her. Instead, he stands before her sword and pleads the enemy’s case. In the end, he watches her leave, covered in wounds and with hatred in her eyes.
One is a second prince burdened with a mission and fighting his elder brother for the throne. The other is his personal guard, yet also the daughter of a general who commands an army. Their backgrounds have doomed them to a tragic romance.
Though the road is rough, both of them are working step by step toward a future for themselves and each other.
