King Zhaorong Shangguanliang was defeated and Ruyang was almost occupied, so he committed suicide out of fear of crime. In the Shangguan clan, the men were exiled and the women were sent to the Jiaofangsi. When Shangguan Yunqing was in Jiaofangsi, he met the male protagonist Xia Sichen. On the surface, the two were hostile, but in fact they worked together to explore the truth behind Ruyang's defeat, overthrow the decadent dynasty, and end the troubled times. The story of Shangguan Yunqing and Xia Sichen is an intertwining of personal struggles and feelings of family and country in troubled times. They went from spying on each other to relying on each other in life and death, subverting the corrupt rules with their flesh and blood, and finally became the light of each other's salvation.
