Sixteen years ago, she was the posthumous child of the Prince of Zhennan’s heir, who commanded an army. The emperor had her father falsely executed to seize his wife. To save her life, her mother entrusted her to her best friend, Xia Ziwei, before dying as well.
When she was six, a Taoist nun passed by the Huo residence and declared that her fate was cursed, and that keeping her at home would bring utter disaster.
She was taken away to the mountains to learn martial arts and other skills, leaving her childhood friend Huo Wushuang behind, separated by a world of distance.
Ten years later, she came down from the mountain on her master’s orders, only to receive an imperial decree: Princess Anle refused to marry into the State of Wei, so Su Yingxue would take the princess’s name and marry far away in her place.
On the journey to Wei, she was seized by the followers of Murong Yun, ruler of Dayuan.
Murong Yun was a bloodthirsty, war-loving northern warlord who had never been one to indulge in women.
He stood before her, looking down at her. “I need someone to warm my bed. You’re just about passable.”
No one knew that this woman who was “just about passable” had made him experience the stirrings of love for the first time.
He substituted a dead soldier and assassin for her, ordering the assassin to travel to Wei under Princess Anle’s name and kill Chu Xiong.
He kept her for himself, making her his princess consort.
He did not understand love, but he remembered the stubborn look in her eyes as she practiced martial arts, her cool profile as she played the zither beneath the moon, and how his heart skipped a beat the first time she called him “Murong Yun.”
But she was Su Yingxue, descendant of the Prince of Zhennan, with blood in her veins that called her to bring peace to all under heaven.
When she learned that Wei and the Great Yu would go to war over her, and that their people would drown in blood
she left.
She set out along the road to marry into another state, a path that had long been fated for her, and became a bride in Wei.
