Three years after the female general Hong Yuan died in the battle at Yanmen Pass, when her soul returned, she saw "herself" in the capital - a replica face, nestled in the arms of her fiancé Mo Xiao. It was a fake that even the falcon she had tamed could not recognize, but it was enjoying the glory that should have been hers.
In order to find out the truth, Hong Yuan disguised herself as the scarred counselor "Ghost Face" and re-entered Mo Xiao's mansion. She caught a glimpse of him whispering to the portrait late at night: "If you could resurrect yourself through a dead body, why didn't you come to me?" She was shocked to realize that in the past three years, he might have never believed that "she" was dead.
Old wounds, tiger talismans, and military formations are all the sharp edges of temptation; the intrigues of the court, the cunningness of the enemy country, and the puzzle of substitutes are all layers of deadly traps. When her sword pointed at the battlefield again, and when his hand touched the scar of the arrow wound on her waist, the lovers who had been separated by life and death finally understood: what he was waiting for was never a face, but the lonely courage that shattered the sky; what she was fighting for was never the name of a substitute, but the qualification to be the Red Kite itself, to protect the mountains and rivers side by side with him, and to go on a life-and-death promise together.
When the war breaks out again, the red makeup will reflect the armor. They will finally tear away the substitute's mask and let the true meaning be revealed to the world.
