On the day when the whole family was convicted, three feet of snow fell in the capital.
Shen Jingzhi was accused of "collaborating with the enemy and treason" by the Taiyuan Hospital. He died in prison before being arraigned. Mom hit the wall. Shen Shutong, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, carried her five-year-old brother on her back and was driven to the border three thousand miles away by a banishment order.
The night her brother had a high fever, she broke into a mass grave to collect medicine and dug out a man covered in blood from the snowdrift - still breathing.
She used three silver needles to snatch him back from the dead. When he woke up, he forgot who he was, where he came from, and where he was going back.
The only thing he didn't forget was that she was the one he wanted to protect.
The younger brother said he picked it up and casually called him "Ah Shi".
Ah Shi lost his memory, but his skills were engraved in his bones. When the soldiers came to collect the monthly payment, he knocked down three of them with a carrying pole; when the horse bandits massacred the village, he guarded the town alone; when the officers and soldiers took people away, he stood at the door: "If you want to take her away, get over me first."
When she was changing his dressing, she saw the arrow scars and whip marks on his back - they were not injuries that ordinary people could have. Until the close-fitting black iron token was revealed, with a word cast on it:
Huo.
Only later did she learn that the secret letter that framed Huo Lin, the God of War in Zhenbei, as "collaborating with the enemy" and the letter that was pinned to her father's head were written by the same hand.
What she picked up was not a passerby in distress, but the Imperial God of War who was stabbed in the back by one of her own people and crawled out of the dead body.
He forgot about the whole world, but he didn't forget to protect her. She had saved his life, now it was his turn to protect her.
