In the seventh year of Yong'an in the Dayong Dynasty, the new emperor was only fourteen years old. The Queen Mother was in charge of the government behind the curtain. The regent Xiao Jue held the power of the government, and his party members were all over the government and the public, trying to frame Zhongliang and cover up the sky with one hand.
The only one who can compete with the regent is Gu Yanci, the general of Zhenbei who guards Yanmen Pass in the north and holds a hundred thousand Xuanjia troops. After he became the founding hero of the country, he became famous at a young age, had great military exploits, and was loyal to the royal family. However, because of his cold temperament and decisive killing, he was known as the "Living Yama" among the people. He was also rumored to be a "wife-killer" - the women who were betrothed to the first three families all died unexpectedly, and no one in the capital dared to marry him.
The game in the court became intense: in order to win over/control Gu Yanci, the regent issued an order in the name of the emperor to marry Shen Qingyao, the eldest daughter of Shen Jing, the official minister, to Gu Yanci, and ordered him to go to Yanmen Pass with the army immediately after the marriage. The Shen family was a direct descendant of the regent and did not dare to resist the decree, but they laid the core motivation for the proxy marriage.
