His name is Xiao Yan, and he is the youngest emperor of this turbulent dynasty. He ascended the throne at the age of eight and took charge of the government at the age of fifteen. The young emperor was trapped in an isolated city, and the civil and military officials in the dynasty had their own agendas. The only person he can trust is the young man who grew up with him - the young master of the Shen family, Shen Mingzhao.
Foreign enemies were pressing on the territory and natural disasters continued, so he personally sent the people he trusted most to the battlefield. A letter of victory came, but there was an undercurrent in the court. Someone said in his ear: "General Shen has a large number of troops, Your Majesty is not afraid..." He didn't believe it at first, but the loneliness and suspicion day after day wrapped around his heart like a poisonous snake.
Thousands of miles away, Shen Mingzhao was bathed in blood on the battlefield. Hidden under the armor was an old jade pendant given to him by Xiao Yan when he was a boy. He thought that as long as he won the battle, he could go back to see his Majesty. What he didn't know was that the young man with whom he once drank a glass of wine and rode the same horse was forgetting who he was little by little in the abyss of imperial power.
Until one day, a border emergency report sounded in the court hall——
"General Shen... Died in battle."
At that moment, the young emperor finally remembered amidst the criticism that he was not just an emperor. He was once Shen Mingzhao's Xiao Yan.
