Introduction to "Peach Blossom Ashes: Sword and Frost"
Li Qingya, the Marquis of Anbang in the Li Kingdom, and Gu Ruoyan, the daughter of the prime minister, were childhood sweethearts and sealed their love with a purple jade hairpin. When the Hungarian barbarians invaded the country, Qing Ya took command of the northern expedition. Ruo Yan died with his hairpin in hand and infiltrated into the army to protect him secretly. She visited the enemy camp at night to steal the battle plan, exchanged her life for victory, and buried a ray of fragrant soul in the wind and snow outside Yumen Pass.
Qing Ya returned triumphantly, only to find that the black hands in the DPRK and the Jianghu power "Beiming Pavilion" had already laid a terrible plan. Ruoyan's body was stolen, and the purple jade hairpin contained a secret edict from the late emperor - all clues pointed to a conspiracy to usurp the country that lasted for decades.
He chased from the border to Miao territory and found Ruoyan who was manipulated into a puppet in the orchid demon formation. She called him "Brother Qingya", but she stabbed his throat with a poisoned dagger. Gu master Xiao Yunqing used her life as a bargaining chip to force Qingya to choose between "kill her" or "she kill you".
When the peach blossoms on Wangxiang Terrace were gone, he used his blood to overcome the poison and returned to Yumen Pass with her burned ashes in his arms. Every spring since then, there will always be a man in white clothes holding a sword in front of the solitary grave outside the pass, pouring two cups of tea, waiting for someone who will never come back.
"On the day I meet you again, I write a heart-breaking poem on green paper."
He guarded the border all his life, and guarded the tomb all his life - until he turned into a grain of sand outside the border and was blown into her favorite peach blossom by the wind.
