On the night of the engagement, a conscription order broke up the couple.
Half a year later, what she was waiting for was the news of his death and the word "live" engraved in blood on a waist badge.
Shen Qinghan, the legitimate daughter of the general's palace, tore off her wedding clothes and changed into men's clothes. She took her servants and maids with her and embarked on a thousand-mile journey from the capital to the border to find her husband. Along the way, she saw a village with ten houses and nine empty houses, heard the cries of orphans and widowed mothers at night, escaped the pursuit of conspiracy minions, and personally buried the maid who died protecting her from a knife.
She thought that finding him would mean reunion.
Unexpectedly, in the deserted border village, among the sounds of carving wood, the masked, lame carpenter "Amu" who married into a farmer's family was none other than her longing-for fiancé Gu Yunzheng. He lost his memory, was disfigured, was autistic, could not recognize the other person, and even closed his eyes to die when she was protecting him with his life.
A disastrous defeat in the "Valley of Broken Souls" concealed a shocking conspiracy of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country; a stubborn pursuit of thousands of miles revealed a blood-stained chess game of power and desire in the court.
When memories are restored in blood, when the truth emerges in killings, when old cases are retried in court——
What she wanted was never the perfect Prince of War.
But it was Gu Yunzheng who was willing to sit side by side with her on the ruins, admit the brokenness, and then decide together how to live.
