The Republic is in turmoil, with war raging on every side.
She was a little girl who fell into the lake at Fengtian. A strange boy grabbed the back of her collar and pulled her to safety. They never exchanged names, never learned each other's surnames, and their chance encounter sank into the torrent of time.
Fifteen years passed in the blink of an eye. Those children had grown into iron-willed soldiers. She became a sharp-minded operations officer in the Northern Expeditionary Army, sent under military orders to infiltrate Wusheng Pass. He became a major general in the Fengtian Army, holding down the region and leading his troops to defend the central plains' vital passage.
Once strangers who had met only briefly, now enemies on opposite sides.
As the war between north and south converges at Wusheng Pass and the threads of fate intertwine once more, they reunite amid a hail of bullets and become entangled on the brink of death.
The innocence of their youth is buried beneath the smoke of war, and the kindness they showed each other as children becomes a heart-wrenching trial. After facing life-and-death choices time and again and crossing the divide between their sides, can they shatter the barriers of this turbulent age and reunite the forgotten dream of their past amid the flames of war?
