The deepest palace in Dayao hides the cruelest secret. The seventh prince's lineage is a sacrifice to stabilize the destiny of the country. Since the birth of the seventh prince Shen Jinghan, he will eventually burn his life on the day of the winter festival. He pretended to be gentle and secretly searched for the truth about his mother's death, just to escape his fate. However, he bumped into Beidi's proton Xiao Che at a palace banquet.
One is a caged bird who wants to escape, the other is a stranger seeking food for his family; one is burdened with the secret sins of the dynasty, and the other is carrying the weight of the entire family's survival. Within the palace walls, they weathered the crisis together. The assassin's knife, the royal family's calculations, and the war on the border pushed the two to opposite sides time and time again.
When the Beidi cavalry crushes the snow on the border, and when the sacred fire of the winter festival lights the altar, Shen Jinghan has to choose between "sacrifice for survival" and "resistance to fate", and Xiao Che has to choose between "the safety of his tribe" and "the people he loves". The prime minister, who advocated the sacrifice, and the prince, who acquiesced in the sacrifice, both struggled with the obsession of "the survival of the dynasty."
In this game of intrigue, mission and affection, no one is a pure winner in the end. When the sacred fire was extinguished and peace was negotiated at the border, they understood: The so-called righteousness never means sacrificing the lives of a few people, but that even if their positions are contradictory, they are still willing to find a way out for each other and for righteousness without staining blood.
Purpose: To explore the boundaries of human nature and interests.