In the 100th year of Zhaowu, the aristocratic families were divided and the imperial power gradually declined. Shen Yan, the son of General Hussar, and Lin Wanyi, the daughter of the Minister of Household Affairs, have been engaged since childhood. They were once the most enviable marriage in Chang'an. However, once the situation changed, the Shen family was framed by the traitor Gu Mingyuan for treason, and the loyalist was wronged. Shen Yan was exiled to the frontier with his family, but Lin Wanyi, who had been deeply in love in the past, sent a heartless letter for the safety of the family.
After seven years on the frontier, Shen Yan transformed from a son of a poor family into a general with outstanding military achievements. With his outstanding military achievements, he was awarded the title of King of Pingbei and returned to the capital in splendid clothes. When she returns, she finds that her old love, Lin Wanyi, has made an engagement with her enemy, Gu Yanchen, and the sweetness of the past has become a heart-piercing sword. When he was desperate, he came across Chu Yao, the sassy and intelligent daughter of the Duke of Zhen, in a hunting ground. The two got to know each other during military affairs, fell in love in a dangerous situation, and became each other's salvation.
The Gu and Lin families were afraid of Shen Yan's power, so they devised a vicious plan and fabricated evidence of conspiracy to frame the two. Emperor Hunzhen listened to the slander and had Chu Yao imprisoned in heaven, and Shen Yan was deposed to stay in the Western Region forever. Shen Yan, who couldn't bear it anymore, raised his troops in the name of "clearing the emperor's side and saving Zhongliang", and stormed into the imperial city in an invincible way, ending the rule of the ignorant emperor and rescuing his beloved Chu Yao.
In the end, Shen Yan ascended the throne as emperor, changed Yuan Jinghe to Zhaoxue for the Shen family, rectified the official administration, and created a prosperous age. He and Chu Yao went to court hand in hand, but the treacherous Lin Wanyi and the careerist Gu Yanchen finally reaped the consequences and ended up in regret. Childhood plums are broken by power, and true love arises from adversity. This is a dynastic epic about betrayal and redemption, tolerance and rise.
