Shangguan Yuer was born in 1981 into a scholarly family in Jiangnan. She immersed herself in books from an early age and especially loved Romance of the Three Kingdoms. She was utterly captivated by Zhao Zilong, the silver-armored hero with a white horse and spear who was said to be the bravest warrior of the Three Armies. She often imagined meeting this famous general, a man "brave to the core."
One afternoon, by chance, as she browsed an antique edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms treasured by her family, a golden light suddenly appeared between the pages. Zhao Zilong himself stepped out, clad in silver armor and holding his Dragon Courage Spear. He brought with him the fierce air of the Three Kingdoms battlefield, yet said to her, "I see how sincere your heart is, miss. I would like to stay by your side and be your boyfriend."
This encounter across a thousand years set in motion a story full of laughs and tender moments. Shangguan Yuer showed Zhao Zilong how to experience modern life: she taught him to take pictures on his phone to record everyday moments, went with him to try on suits that made him look even more heroic than a dragon robe, and took him to cut his long hair into a neat, short style. She also had to explain that "food delivery" and "navigation" weren't spells cast by sorcerers, and that "traffic lights" weren't battlefield signals. Zhao Zilong, in turn, protected Yuer in his own way: he stood tall like a military commander and stepped up for her, carefully saved modern snacks as "military rations," and even smiled as he filled in the battlefield details that the book left out while she read Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
When the iron resolve of a Three Kingdoms general meets the gentle everyday life of a Jiangnan woman, and the sincerity of the cold weapon era encounters the bustle of modern society, two people from different eras grow closer through adjustment and companionship. A thousand years of separation gradually fade away, admiration becomes a life shared together, and an unexpected encounter blossoms into a romance all their own.
