In the turbulent times of the Republic of China, a cold political marriage pushed Shen Jingshu, the pearl of a centuries-old scholarly family in the south of the Yangtze River, to the young marshal Ling Xiao, the successor of the iron-blooded warlords in the north.
He is the wolf of the North, cold and majestic, carrying the burden of an army of 300,000 and the family's ambitions, and regards marriage as a bargaining chip to consolidate power. She is a water lily from the south, gentle and demure, with an ideal of poetry and calligraphy, but she becomes a victim of her family's search for asylum in the turbulent times. When they first met Jiangnan at the Misty Rain Banquet, her voiceless voice unexpectedly touched his frozen heartstrings; the fatigue and ambition hidden beneath his cold exterior also quietly broke into her resistant heart.
From the tears of resigning when she was forced to marry in the north, to the turbulent undercurrents in the deep gate of the handsome manor; from the framing of the murder in the study, to the secret help of Meiyuan on a snowy night; from the benevolence of the doctors who rescued the wounded soldiers, to the sacrifice of their lives to protect each other under the air raid... With the flexibility and wisdom of a Jiangnan woman, Shen Jingshu struggled to gain a foothold in the handsome manor that was like a dragon's den and a tiger's den, and even showed touching courage and responsibility in the smoke of war.
And Ling Xiao, from the initial observation and alienation, to being shocked by her tenacity and kindness, to fighting for her against all odds and protecting her with his life. The iron-blooded marshal's defenses were broken down layer by layer as he spent time together and shared weal and woe. The cold political marriage, tempered by the wars of troubled times, gradually sublimated into an unforgettable true love.
However, their road to love is full of thorns. In the commander's mansion, the conspiracies and assassinations of the third concubine are closely followed; on the battlefield, the enemy's artillery fire and alienation never stop. The interests of family and country, struggles for power, and tests of life and death followed one after another. They not only have to protect each other's hearts, but also
