Princess Zhaoning of the Great Liang, bearing the name Yong'an and the duty of a political marriage, was sent far away to the Northern Di, only to fall into a living hell. Her once peerless beauty was ruined by poison, her fine clothes reduced to rags, and her proud spirit broken beneath the barbarians' humiliation. Yet the royal dignity in her blood would never let her bend the knee. Even cast aside like a worn-out shoe, she remained a lone phoenix who would never yield in the face of hardship.
General Xiao Xinglan, stationed at the border, was like a silent sword of dark iron. With his strict adherence to propriety, he became her last shield. Knowing she had no choice but to bear the burden of two nations, he could only protect her in silence, burying his forbidden feelings amid the snow and wind of the northern frontier. When the barbarians' iron hooves once again threatened the border, he was ordered to lead an expedition. Their eyes met across thousands of soldiers as they parted, becoming the last trace of tenderness in a chaotic age.
This was a game with no solution: trapped by her identity as a princess given in marriage, she struggled between revenge and self-destruction; bound by loyalty to her sovereign, he turned his love into bloodstains on the banner defending the frontier.
When Zhaoning tore apart the web of fate, she once again chose to enter the game herself, take up the pieces, and break through the deadlock...
