He died in battle in exchange for her belated epiphany and half of the blood-stained jade emperor. She used her rebirth to risk the princess's honor and life to fight for his innocence.
The silent consort who she once avoided turned out to be the light that held up her life under the icy lake. The benefactor he once believed in was the wolf who stole his military exploits and wanted to kill him.
In this life, Su Yunqing doesn't want dignity, only Xiao Yan. He reversed the case in court, saved his husband from thousands of miles away, and used his body as a sword to cut through numerous conspiracies and killings.
When she met his shocked and pitiful eyes in the canyon of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, she could only say: "Because, you are there."
The machinations of family and country, the wind and snow at the border, this road of near death, this time, they walked side by side.