[Jingkang-era Tragic Romance] [An Orphaned Young Woman Amid the Fall of a Dynasty] [The Unfulfilled Longing of Prince Kang's Flight South] [Childhood Sweethearts Protecting Each Other Through Life and Death] [A Jin Prince's Obsessive Devotion]
At the end of the Northern Song, Li Yurou, an orphan from Qianming Temple outside Bianliang, was rescued by the ninth prince, Prince Kang, Zhao Gou. After entering the palace, she changed her name to Li Yulu to avoid the taboo in Princess Roufu's name.
Zhao Gou brought her to his residence, unaware that since childhood, Yurou had been close to Qi Rong, a lonely boy who lived outside the temple and convent, nicknamed Little Fish as a child. The two shared a deep bond.
Several years later, Yurou met Wanyan Zongbi, the Jin Kingdom's Fourth Prince, who had secretly entered Song territory, at Prince Kang's residence. Wanyan Zongbi fell in love with Yurou at first sight and vowed to return to Bianliang one day to marry her.
Emperor Huizong of Song forged the "Alliance on the Sea" with the Jin to destroy the Liao, never imagining that he was inviting the wolf inside. The result was the humiliation of Jingkang: the fall of the dynasty and the suffering of its people.
After the Northern Song fell, the Jin took Huizong, Qinzong, and all the Song officials and imperial relatives captive and carried them north. Wanyan Zongbi also found Yurou and forcibly took her back to Jin.
Of the imperial bloodline, only Prince Kang, Zhao Gou, escaped Bianliang and established a new regime south of the Yangtze. Yet he continued to yearn for Yurou, far away in Jin, day and night, unable to forget her.
Qi Rong regarded Yurou as his only family. After the Jin broke through the city walls, he followed her in secret, protecting her through one arduous journey after another, all to keep her safe...
Amid the turmoil of a world in chaos, across a thousand miles of rivers and mountains, devastation stretched as far as the eye could see...
The ties and entanglements between these few were destined to become a tragic dream that could never end happily, and a sorrowful, mournful song of farewell.
Against the backdrop of a grand and tragic historical epic, the fate of a woman like Yurou, caught in a chaotic age yet steadfast in her sense of self, could never escape the helplessness of having no choice in her own life...
