Eight years ago, she was an innocent, naive, reckless young girl running away from home. He was a passionate young man discussing new ideas with his friends. Eight years later, she is a songstress at a theater, seemingly delicate and weak but actually resolute and brave, and she takes revenge on her enemies with her own hands. He is the young master of a high-ranking family, just returned from studying abroad. He seems cold and distant, but beneath that exterior is a steadfast man with a tender heart for the heroine and the world at large. She is the Jiang family’s daughter, taking the place of a friend who died of illness to reclaim her family roots. He is the eldest son of the Liang family, engaged to a daughter of the Zhang family. He teaches for three years and serves in the army for three more, gradually maturing from teacher to officer. In peaceful times, she is his student. In a war-torn age, he is her patient. He dies in the year they love each other most, clasping her hand and using his last breath to say, “In this troubled world, I have failed you. I only hope that in our next life, the land will know peace, and we will have peace year after year, so I may never fail your love again!”
