1935. Xuncheng is battered by storms. A marriage contract in exchange for a grave.
Ye Heyi, antique painting restorer × Zhan Shaoheng, chemistry expert and young heir to a wealthy family
Marriage first, love later | Duty to family and country | Devoted to each other, happy ending
A wedding without red candles or a celebratory feast conceals murderous intent from the very beginning.
The plain silk cloth from their wedding night and a newly erected ancestral tablet in the family shrine drag Ye Heyi into the abyss of the wealthy Zhan family.
A year later, she is driven out of the Zhan family home.
The man who had never loved her kneels in the ancestral shrine and vows to search for her for the rest of his life.
Adrift in troubled times, with war raging for thousands of miles.
After all their twists and turns, they will overcome every divide, stand hand in hand amid a crumbling nation, and protect their home and country together.
