I, Shen Yanci, am a nineteen-year-old official and the head of the Household Department, determined to reform the salt policy and purge the world.
She, Su Jingye, ruled the southeastern seaboard at the age of eighteen, vowing to overthrow the dynasty and restore order.
We are natural enemies - the court and the arena, the law and the sword, reform and revolution.
But in the life-and-death confrontations, they fell in love with each other's sharpest looks.
I suppressed the bandit memorial for her, and she wiped out the corrupt officials for me.
I said: "Su Jingye, come ashore with me, and I will promise you a bright future."
She smiled: "Shen Yanci, come to the sea with me, and I promise you a happy life."
None of us would bow our heads until the dragon throne collapsed and the new emperor was trapped.
That night when the flames illuminated the imperial city, I lit the dynamite fuse.
She rushed over thousands of troops and shouted to me amidst the explosion:
"Shen Yanci - we will die together! I will protect you on the road to hell!"
——Later, history books only wrote: "In the fifty-first year of Yongchang, two stars fell, and the river became clear and the sea began to rise."
No one knew that the love between two women was buried in the fire that blasted through the darkness of the dynasty.
