In the third year of Yongxi's reign, Shen Qingxian, a down-and-out scholar, rescued the oiran Su Wanyue who was covered in blood in a ruined temple. She is glamorous and prickly, while he is aloof and pedantic, but dangerous feelings develop in the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River.
He went to Beijing to take the exam for his future, and to protect him, she did not hesitate to fall into prostitution and used herself as bait.
However, when he was the top pick in high school, faced with the olive branch offered by the powerful minister, he chose to acquiesce in the frame-up - she became a death row prisoner of collaboration with the enemy and treason, with all her fingers severed and her face completely disfigured.
Three years later, he met her again at the border military camp.
She has been reduced to a mute slave, her face is covered with scars, and she is being bullied wantonly by the soldiers, but she is holding tightly in her arms the faded sachet he gave her back then.
"I hope we never meet strangers in the next life."
This was the last bloody letter she left to him.
And after burning everything with his own hands, he finally understood:
Some love is destined to be evidenced by ashes.
