Mistaken for a deserter and thrown onto a deadly battlefield, Shen Zhao single-handedly massacres the enemy command post. She knows that the man seated in the command tent is her father's former subordinate, and a witness to the blood feud that haunts her. Yet the enemy's deputy commander, Gu Hansheng, leaves a single line in his battle report: "Come back. I'll be waiting for you."
After ten years of concealing her identity, she has been torn apart by the truth: she is no deserter, but the orphaned daughter of a military family, buried among the corpses. When Liu Qiniang brings her a sealed dossier, Zhao Tieshou's jade lock gleams with bloodstains in the moonlight, Su Yunxiu's medicine bottles lie shattered across the floor, and Lord Han burns the last half of a military banner, Shen Zhao finally understands. This war is no longer a clash between nations. The truth her father gave his life for is coming back to life in her hands.
