Seventeen years ago, King Yan Xie Jingxing picked up an orphan girl from a snowy night in Chang'an and named her Xie Qingqian.
She became his nominal adopted daughter and the sharpest sword in his hand.
He taught her poetry, riding and archery, gave her the power to plan war, and polished her into a strange woman who could walk calmly between the court and the battlefield.
But he never taught her how not to love him.
