Shen Zhijin, a physician from a border town, is captured and taken to an enemy camp, where she relies on her peerless medical skills to survive amid the clash of blades. She treats the enemy general's wife and teaches the maids, but is forced to tend to Xiao Yu, a gravely wounded general of the Yong Kingdom who has been taken prisoner. Though their beliefs clash, they gradually fall for each other. Amid schemes and the flames of war, they join hands to protect the people of the borderlands. When tenderness meets duty to the homeland, and a healer's compassion faces the sword, can she hold on to her principles as a physician in these troubled times? And what choice will she make about the tangled affection binding her to someone on the other side?
