This is the angsty love story of the willful Princess Xiao Mingzhao and the impoverished-born General Xie Jinglan, who go from despising each other to understanding one another. A political marriage betroths the princess to a prince of an enemy kingdom, and the general is ordered to escort her. They are ambushed along the way. In the end, the princess, her wedding gown drenched in blood, rescues the dying general amid upheaval at the enemy kingdom’s royal court, but they both turn white-haired as snow. Their all-consuming love becomes the most heartbreaking page in the history books.
