[Devoted Prince × General]
[Court Intrigue]
In the autumn of the second year of Ning, Marquis Murong Qing of Weiyuan stormed the Xirong royal court. On the day of his triumphant return, he was shocked to learn that Consort Yu, the older sister who had raised him, had died suddenly in the depths of the palace, leaving only the sixteen-year-old prince Lu Heng to struggle amid a pack of wolves.
To protect his nephew, Murong Qing was forced into the treacherous struggle between factions. He personally helped Prince Xiang claim the throne, only to earn Lu Heng’s bitter words, “Uncle, I hate you,” and a rupture between them. The new emperor then discarded him once he had served his purpose and sent him into exile.
Years later, the realm lay in ruins, and the new emperor’s debauchery had invited foreign armies to invade. Murong Qing emerged from seclusion in humble clothes and rallied his old allies in the hour of national crisis. Amid the flames of war, he reunited with Lu Heng, now a grown man. When blood and fire burned away the lies, Murong Qing finally understood that he had spent half his life enduring in silence to fulfill his promise to Lu Heng’s mother: “I will keep you safe.”
From rain in the inner palace to roads ablaze with war, from suspicion and estrangement to entrusting each other with their lives. When the dust finally settled, they retired together to the southern mountains. There, the snow fell without a sound, as if time had washed away every misunderstanding and scar, leaving only the purest companionship.
