Five years ago, Chen Ce, supreme commander of the Northern Border Dragon Guards known as the “Dragon King,” vanished during a bloody battle on the frontier. The whole nation believed he had died in action. In truth, he had been gravely wounded. To honor the dying wish of a fallen comrade and look after his fiancée, Lin Xue, he took on a false identity and married into the Lin family of the northeastern city of Bingcheng, becoming the most lowly son-in-law who lived under his wife’s roof.
Five years of endurance earned him nothing but his mother-in-law’s insults, his brother-in-law’s bullying, and the contempt of the entire family. Though Lin Xue secretly cared for him, family pressure forced her to stand by coldly. Bound by his promise to his comrade, Chen Ce never struck back or talked back, living as a “good-for-nothing” in everyone’s eyes.
Then, on a stormy night, his brother-in-law Lin Ao slapped Chen Ce in public over a down jacket. At the same time, a red emergency order flashed on his phone: [The Dragon King must return. The frontier is in danger.]
Chen Ce wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and straightened his back for the first time.
Outside, three thousand soldiers in iron armor had arrived. The spineless son-in-law the entire city had mocked for five years had become the Dragon King, a man whose every step could shake the frontier. His former tormentors trembled on their knees, while those who once looked down on him were struck with terror. Chen Ce had only one question for the wife who had secretly brought him medicine: “Will you stand with me and guard this kingdom that has come to us so late?”
But foreign forces had already infiltrated the country, and the mastermind behind it all turned out to be an old family friend of the Lins. Lin Xue was kidnapped, and the Dragon Guards were surrounded. Chen Ce had to choose between his kingdom and the woman he loved, or so it seemed. He chose both.
From a spineless son-in-law in the snow to an iron-blooded Dragon King who inspires fear far and wide; from enduring hardship for a promise to fighting for love. This is a fiery tale of rising to power in a land of bitter cold, and a story of fierce devotion tempered by snow and wind.
