In the turbulent chess game of Peking in the Republic of China, Lin Nianhe, the eldest daughter of the Lin family, used her identity to approach her marriage partner Zhang Zeqian. An encounter that began as a trial ended in deep love.
Behind the tenderness of poetry, wine and singing is the Hongmen Banquet set up by his father. The entire Zhang family was buried in a sea of fire. Love and hate suddenly broke apart, and former lovers became enemies.
Zhang Zeqian, whose family was ruined, threw himself into the anti-Japanese war, bearing a blood feud; Lin Nianhe, who broke free from the prison, rushed to Xishan to atone for his sins with intelligence and spend the rest of his life getting closer.
They follow each other in life and death in the light of swords, and they are married under the cuckoos in the mountains. They stick to their love when the mountains and rivers are broken, and they uphold the righteousness together in the face of national peril.
The Japanese army encircled and suppressed them, and their close friends went to die. In the final confrontation on the south bank of the river, they would rather die than surrender and embrace each other across the river.
She protected him with her life, and he lived for her until the end of the world. Finally, he was buried in the same cave, practicing throughout his life: we are dependent on each other in life and death, and will never be separated.
A love story in troubled times, a tragic song of family and country, expressed in the falling snow of Peking, expressing the longing for old friends and the feelings of mountains and rivers.
