She is a decisive female general in the northern border. She has a green-fronted halberd and protects the country thousands of miles away, but she cannot keep the oath she made to her childhood sweetheart.
He was an exiled medicine-bone scholar, suffering from tuberculosis and half an inch of broken lamp. He used the mountains and rivers as a chessboard and his life as a bargaining chip, just to bet that she would look back.
Three thousand miles of beacon fire, ten years of drinking ice, she opened the way with blood, and he returned spring with poison.
When the old love turned to ashes and the dragon's blood was black and yellow, she took off her armor and put on her clothes, and then she realized that the greatest betrothal gift in the world was not the gold and iron horse, but him dragging his withered bones to sew the broken mountains and rivers into a home for her.
——"Shen Guiyan, I have robbed the world, are you willing to use it to exchange for a crippled me?"
