On the winter night of the first year of Qianlong's reign, an assassin sneaked into Cining Palace pretending to be a eunuch.
After the guard commander Li Chen killed three people, he used his back to protect the queen mother with a poisonous sleeve arrow.
When the Queen Mother dug out the poisonous arrow with her own hands, her fingertips touched the old scar on his back - shaped like an eagle spreading its wings.
In his coma, Li Chen grabbed the corner of the Queen Mother's clothes and whispered: "Don't be afraid..."
The Queen Mother stared at the blood-stained dagger thoughtfully: "Thirty years... It's you?"
