In the twenty-eighth year of Yongding, the old capital was destroyed and the emperor was captured. In the year when the Liao cavalry trampled the mountains and rivers, the fate of countless people was crushed into dust.
Pei Ji was originally a young general with bright clothes and angry horses. He was the legitimate son of Duke Pei, and his family was full of loyalty. He could rule the country and bring peace to the world with his literary skills, and his military skills could guard the borders against the Liao people - until that battle.
Whipping, dragging, branding... He survived, but his legs were disabled and his body was poisoned. He became a disabled person who had to be waited on even when going to the toilet.
Grandma, wearing the royal imperial uniform, knelt down the ninety-nine steps in the snow to fight for a way out for him. And he could only hide in the village outside the city, relying on a few old servants who had nowhere to go, and endured the remaining days of his life for who knows how long.
Until the birth came.
She is a girl who came from a mountain village. She has a beautiful face, but she has never known what it means to be reserved. One hundred taels of silver. She was sent to the crippled general's bed to be a "belly lady." Give birth to a child, get one hundred taels, and then the sky will be high and the sea will be vast, and everyone will have nothing to do with it.
One is a young general who has fallen into the dust. Most of his pride has been broken, but he still clings to the last bit of unwillingness.
One is a country girl who climbed into his bed for money. She has never read a book and does not understand the rules, but she has a brighter heart than anyone else.
They were in that isolated village, in that winter with endless snow, getting closer and closer.
All she wanted was a hundred taels and the bright future in her imagination.
What he wants is to find the real culprit alive and seek justice for the Pei family.
But destiny never follows the path written by anyone.
