The Chu Dynasty was born in iron blood. Emperor Taizu, Prime Minister Yun Jian, and Zhongguo Gong Xie Lie were collectively known as the "Three Founding Stones of the Nation". They rode horses across the nine kingdoms and pointed their swords at the Central Plains. When the last rebel flag was burned on the banks of the Weishui River, the news of Xie Lie's death in battle and the news of victory reached Jinling at the same time. Ten-year-old Xie Heng received the "Zhenyuan Sword" given by the emperor himself in the mourning hall. The nine mysterious patterns on the sword's tassel are the symbol of pacifying the Nine Kingdoms.
In the tenth year since the founding of the Chu Kingdom, the glazed tiles of Weiyang Palace were covered with snow from the night before.
The ten-year-old prime minister's daughter Yun Zhiwei stood on tiptoe to break off a plum branch, only to see a pair of wolf-like eyes revealed behind the plum tree - it was Xie Heng, the newly orphaned heir apparent of the General's Palace, holding half a blood-stained tiger talisman in his palm.
"Did you also lose something?" She took off the jade pendant from her waist and stuffed it into his hand, "Hold this first, and then return it to me when I find yours."
