On a snowy night in Xigu Lane, seven-year-old Ning Niang gave half a bed to the little mute who had fled.
She didn't know that this boy whose name she didn't even dare to say was the emperor's heir Qi Min who was living among the people.
In troubled times, the fate of the two children is intertwined——
She is the daughter of a butcher, and she grew up holding a butcher's knife. She thought that her greatest future in life was to become the best butcher in Xigu Lane.
He is a prince in trouble, hiding in the marketplace, thinking that his greatest hope in life is to live until his mother returns.
But fate wants them to be each other's light.
She taught him how to make a fire in the snow, and he taught her how to write in the moonlight.
She said she wanted to protect him, and he said he wanted to remember her.
Later, the war came to Xigu Lane, and they were scattered by the troubled times.
One of them followed his sister to the capital, and walked step by step from the butcher's daughter to the depths of the palace walls.
A man was dragged into the whirlpool of the court and grew from a shameless child to an emperor with the world in mind.
Childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts.
What I thought was a childish promise turned out to be an obsession engraved in my bones and blood.
He once used the country as a betrothal gift and promised his mother to honor the world.
She once held a sword and swore to protect him for the rest of his life.
"Bao'er, I'm here."
"Ning Niang, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
From the snow in Xigu Lane to the moon in Jinluan Palace.
From the butcher's knife to the phoenix seal, from the clay leg to the mother of a country.
This is a story about growth, protection and love.
It's about how two children who grew up in troubled times became each other's light step by step, and how, over the long years, the childhood saying "Hang yourself on a hook and don't change for a hundred years" became a lifelong legend.
