In the twenty-sixth year of Yong'an Daye's reign, it was snowing heavily in Beijing and Luo.
The ninth prince Xiao Jingchen, who had been abandoned by the royal family for ten years, returned to the capital in the snow with the Beiting Army.
Everyone knows that he is an abandoned son from the border who has no mother to protect him and no emperor to love him, and he is a waste that the court can manipulate at will.
No one knows that ten years of wind and sand have long since tempered his bones into a cold blade with a hidden edge. He is dormant and waiting for the wind to blow up and turn the world upside down and settle old debts.
His only obsession after returning was to find out the bloody truth about his biological mother's "sudden death in childbirth" and to uncover the culprit of the Manchu dynasty's conspiracy.
But under the competition of imperial power and the checks and balances of relatives, an imperial edict granting marriage suddenly fell.
The one he wants to marry is Lin Jinger, the daughter of the powerful Duke of Chu.
She was born into a top-notch family, grew up in the whirlpool of power, is transparent and calm, and has a hidden mind.
Since being trapped by the family's conspiracy, he has seen through the filth of the noble family and the warmth and coldness of the court, but he has always kept his mind clear.
Their former love was torn apart, and they couldn't help but get married. A marriage contract trapped two shackles in Prince Qi's palace.
When we first meet, we are distant and polite, but gradually we get along with each other in a warm and gentle way.
He saw that she was unsullied, tough and transparent, the purest touch of moonlight in the deep courtyard;
She saw that he was solitary and forbearing, that he valued justice and concealed tenderness, and that he was the most trustworthy person in troubled times.
Love quietly takes root, but the old hatred that has been buried for twenty years suddenly breaks through.
The heinous sins of their fathers stand between their beloved, making them a chasm that they cannot cross.
He hated that the Lin family was full of blood debt, but he could not let go of her;
She knew that her family's sins were unforgivable, but she was trapped in the fetters of flesh and blood, half-life ties, and was in a dilemma.
