On the border of Daliang, the eldest princess Xiao Yici was ordered to return to Beijing after her father's death to assist her young and frail younger brother, the new emperor Xiao Yiyan. However, the capital city is in turmoil: Prime Minister Lin Youzhi dominates the government and is ambitious; brother Jin, King Xiao Yijin, secretly covets the throne; the Queen Mother joins forces with powerful officials and tries to trap her in the back house through a conferred marriage. He was assassinated on the way back to Beijing, the late emperor's spirit reappeared before his death, his younger brother was mysteriously poisoned, and the plague raged in the North... Many crises followed one after another.
At the same time, General Shen Chao of Zhenbei, who had a large number of troops, was ordered to return to Beijing. He rescued her in the snow and helped her in the court, but he seemed to be inextricably linked to the key mystery. From testing each other and working together to break the situation, the two gradually see each other's perseverance and sincerity clearly in the face of life and death tribulations and confrontations of power.