"The Giant Roosts on the Obsidian"
Shen Jinghong, the legitimate daughter of the Hou Mansion, is the "Jade-faced Shura" who terrifies the barbarians on the battlefield in northern Xinjiang. A soft sword can split the wind and sand of the desert;
The two people, who were supposed to be tit-for-tat, were drawn into the vortex of the prince's rebellion because of half a broken hosta and a pair of entangled obsidian. She returned hiding the secret message from the border, and he lurked with the royal secret order. It was obvious that they were competing against each other, but in each confrontation, they caught a glimpse of each other's hidden strengths——
She broke into the clan house at night to protect the prince, but he missed his target when he fired an arrow in the dark; he tried to trap her to death with false evidence, but he left a foreshadowing of a reversal at the critical moment; when the scars from the Southern Xinjiang Tongxin Gu were burning on the back of his neck, the antidote in her sleeve was glowing.
When the Xidi cavalry broke through the Yanmen Pass, when Li Song's perjury filled the Golden Palace, and when all the conspiracies pointed to the dead end of "two powers devouring each other," they were shocked to realize: those seemingly tit-for-tat moments were all silent guards; those temptations hidden in the intrigues had already planted the seeds of their hearts.
"You and I are both chess players, why bother pretending to be chess pieces?"
"Then let's work together to overturn the chessboard and see who can't help but be tempted first."
There is sweetness hidden in the light of the sword, and sincerity in the intrigue. This is a contest of powerful collisions, and it is also a sweet and sad love affair from "mutual calculation" to "each other's only" - after all, the sharpest sword must be equipped with a sheath that understands it best; the strongest wind will eventually stop at the harbor that can best accommodate it.
