Amid the turmoil of her exposed identity, Xiao Heng chooses to protect her. He quells doubts with military law and stands by her as they intercept secret letters and suppress a mutiny. When Zhao Hu and Murong Jin conspire together, he carves her a bloody path to safety. Shen Qingwu, too, casts off her disguise, riding across the battlefield in bloodstained red and proving in the name of “General Red Plume” that being a woman is no weakness.
