Amid war and chaos, with the land strewn with corpses and the powerful seizing whatever they pleased, surviving in this troubled age took real cunning. Su Ruo'er shamelessly admitted she was afraid to die.
He secretly infiltrated a foreign country, using the identity of its deceased crown prince to act in the shadows. Cold-blooded and unattached, he never got involved in other people’s affairs. But during an encounter in the desert, he met Su Ruo'er, a girl who was still young and yet tough and courageous.
He was not one to meddle, yet for her, he kept changing his usual ways. But she was so dense, with her heart set on her senior sister, who disguised herself as a man. He only smiled in silence, yet for some inexplicable reason, he always felt a pang of jealousy.