[Male Lead Who Plays the Pig to Eat the Tiger vs. Supporting Characters from All Walks of Life]
The romance is still undecided, so feel free to ship whoever you like.
For years, Zhao Changxin has had the same dream. In it, corpses pile up like mountains, flames reach the heavens, and bodies litter a vast palace.
His mother is dead. So is his elder sister.
"Changxin... Changxin... You have to live."
The words are like a curse, forever echoing in his ears. He cannot stop, and does not dare to.
In the darkness, he is alone, running through the rain for his life. Exhausted, he tumbles into a muddy pit. When he gets up, he is covered in blood, filthy and disheveled like a beggar.
Even so, the pursuers behind him do not let up. In his panic, he hides in a ruined temple. Looking up, he sees a youth wearing a veiled hat asleep on a beam.
"Please, save me."
Zhao Changxin remembers begging him like that.
The youth carries a long sword on his back. Backlit, he looks like a god descending from heaven as he shields Zhao Changxin from a storm of arrows.
Hiding behind the youth's slender frame, Zhao Changxin forgets everything for a moment. In a daze, it feels like a dream, and he cannot make out the youth's face beneath the veiled hat.
All he remembers is the lake-green tassel, shaped like a love knot, hanging from the youth's sword hilt.
That tassel has appeared in Zhao Changxin's dreams countless times. Whenever he reaches out and his fingertips touch that flash of lake green, the dream shatters like a mirror, leaving him to lose it again and again in the dead of night, yearning for something forever out of reach.
And so, it becomes an obsession.
