At the Shangyuan Palace Banquet, sixteen-year-old Princess Zhaohua sneaks out to watch an acrobatic show, only to first catch sight of the spirited young man on the martial arts platform: Shen Yan.
Three months later, the Shen family is accused of treason and the whole clan is convicted. Shen Yan “dies” in a raging fire.
Nearly four years later, Zhaohua finds a gravely wounded man in the snow outside the city and takes him in.
He calls himself Shen Qi, her new bodyguard.
But the same sword techniques, the same old wounds, and the restraint he can never quite hide when he looks at her make Zhaohua more and more certain:
The man everyone said was dead has returned...
