She is the brightest star on the grasslands, Princess Ling Xue, cherished by everyone in her tribe. Her world was once made up of vast pastures, galloping horses, and carefree winds. Then war flared between the two nations, and an imperial edict of marriage sent her from the free skies of the northern frontier to the many-palaced capital of the Great An Dynasty.
He is Shen Jin, crown prince of the Great An Dynasty. Cool and restrained on the outside, he is the empire’s perfect heir. Yet deep within him lies a hazy, warm childhood memory of a distant grassland. Ordered to marry the supposedly spoiled grassland princess, he thinks only of duty and political calculation.
With her bridal procession stretching for miles, she enters this exquisite, frigid cage as a stranger called the “Crown Princess.” When they meet, neither recognizes the other. He sees her as a foreign noblewoman sacrificing herself for her tribe, while she sees him as an enemy crown prince, lofty and impossible to read. Deep within the palace, they maintain a facade of calm as they test one another and keep their distance.
Until Ling Xue accidentally falls into the water during a palace banquet. At the critical moment, Shen Jin leaps into the freezing lake without hesitation.
From that moment on, the high walls begin to melt.
An epic love story that begins with a political marriage, is bound by a connection from the past, is tested by danger, and ultimately brings them together unfolds before them.
