A marriage was granted, and the golden princess Chu Zhaotang of Zhenguo and the iron-blooded general Xie Lingxiao of Zhenbei, who guarded the border, were trapped in the shackles of intertwined power. In the golden palace, his armor was stained with blood and was as cold as iron; her phoenix hairpin fell to the ground and her eyes were red. This marriage, which started as a political transaction, should have been the beginning of a stranger's journey.
The cold confrontation on the wedding night, the secret prying in the study, and the undercurrent surging, the two caught a glimpse of each other's sincerity in the details - the military defense plans she copied, and the book of blood and tears of the common people he collected, like two stars quietly approaching in the darkness. When the war spread, she took off her fine clothes and sneaked into the military camp, using her extraordinary medical skills to save lives and heal the wounded; he deliberately tried to test it, but was shocked by her ingenious plan to "attack the canyon with fire". The mutual friendship on the avalanche night, the sharing of life and death on the battlefield, the ferocious whip marks and the hot blood have all become the mark of the union of their souls.
When the master returned to the court, the hidden arrows of the palace intrigues were worse than the swords and guns on the battlefield. Xie Lingxiao was framed by powerful officials, and Chu Zhaotang tampered with secret messages late at night; at her birthday party, he knelt down on one knee with his shackles on and made an armor made of enemy treasures and jade to protect her. When the final battle came and he was poisoned and fell into coma, she disguised herself as a man and led the troops to break out, using the kiss medicine to awaken her lover.
After the war, at the top of the Great Wall, tiger symbols were melted into concentric locks, and the words "Zhao" and "Xiao" were engraved with mountains and rivers. From the chess pieces of power to each other's armor, their stories are affectionate guardians in the whirlpool of power and intrigue, and they are also legends that will never fade in the wars of troubled times.
