Everyone in the civil and military circles of the dynasty knew that Lin Shuyan, the newly promoted prime minister, and Shen Moqing, the general of the country, were mortal enemies. Political disagreements and tit-for-tat confrontations were commonplace in the Jinluan Palace, and it was even more common for them to argue and refuse to give in to each other in the imperial study. Even at palace banquets, there could be tense situations on the spot due to disagreements over border policies.
Until the war breaks out again at the border, the enemy invaders knock on the border with their iron hoofs, and the country is in danger. Shen Moqing took the initiative to ask for a tassel and a seal to go into battle. On the eve of his departure, he sneaked into the heavily guarded Prime Minister's Mansion alone, forced a jade pendant stained with old blood and mottled with cracks into Lin Shuyan's hands, and left a cold and heavy instruction: "If I die in battle, thoroughly investigate the old cases of the Shen family for me, and clear the wrongs."
The prime minister's fingertips grazed the cracks in the jade pendant, and he stayed up all night.
A few months later, the general made a triumphal return and returned to court with the heads of the enemy chiefs, to the great joy of the people. Above the Golden Palace, Lin Shuyan was about to go out and present the irrefutable evidence he had worked so hard to find, but he saw the man with an iron-blooded aura walking directly in front of him. Under the astonished gaze of the emperor and the officials, he suddenly tore open the damaged shirt, revealing a ferocious new wound on his heart——
The shape of the injury matched perfectly with the crack in the jade pendant he had held tightly in his hand for several months!
Shen Moqing's eyes were filled with turbulent waves that no one could understand, as he approached step by step, his voice was hoarse but resounding:
"Prime Minister Lin," "Have you taken good care of my 'betrothal gift'..."
[Tit-for-tat on the surface, but hidden fetters·The cold-blooded and attentive prime minister accepts VS the domineering and powerful·The sinister and affectionate general attacks]
Intention: Beneath the cracks, the truth remains; beneath the surface of hostility, love remains deep. Even if the court situation is treacherous and the old cases are shrouded in mystery, with trust as the boat and true love as the blade, we can cut through the waves, reach the mountains, rivers, sun and moon together, and work together to compose a sincere love song that belongs to the strong.