In the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, Jincheng, Jiangnan.
Seventeen-year-old Shen Yunni was the daughter of the former Qing Dynasty Imperial Academy. She was supposed to have a peaceful life, and when her childhood sweetheart's fiancé returned from studying abroad, it would be a happy marriage. However, overnight, her father died of illness in prison due to an old literary conviction, and her mother died of fear. She was reduced from a wealthy young lady to an orphaned girl.
Huo Mingshan, the governor of the three provinces in Jiangbei, passed by Jincheng. He heard the piano under the moon and had a startling glimpse.
He is a grassroots, iron-blooded warlord who is decisive in killing and domineering. She would rather fight to the death than succumb to his robbery. But when her uncle's family was convicted and imprisoned because of her, he still made an offer that he couldn't refuse——
"You come with me, I'll let the Shen family go."
A piece of paper pushed her onto the northbound train. From then on, she was the canary in the cage, and he was the hunter holding the cage. She fights with silence, and he protects with domineering; she escapes again and again, and he pursues her again and again.
From Jincheng in the south of the Yangtze River to the Governor's Mansion in the north of the Yangtze River, from the provincial girls' middle school to the Hong Kong dock, from the capital Chongqing to the anti-Japanese front line - eight years of war, thousands of miles of mountains and rivers. When national hatred and family hatred sweep in, when the smoke clears and the ashes of Jincheng remain, can she and him wait for the belated reunion?
