"My lord, from the very beginning, the whole world has stood between us."
A tune played on the xiao at a palace banquet revealed to the world Jiang Xueji, a princess of the old dynasty's imperial clan, and the snowy realm's treasured artifact in her hands, the Frostglow Xiao.
Behind the beaded curtain, the seven-stringed instrument answered in harmony. Because of this musical connection across the curtain, Feng Huiyu, a young lord of the new dynasty, stood up for her for the first time in a court where his father and brothers were suspicious of him.
Everyone saw her as a pawn in the struggle for the nation's destiny.
But when they were alone, he brushed the dust from her xiao. "I fight to protect the people I want to protect."
The Central Plains' hegemon trampled the borderlands, and a letter of state bound their fates tightly together, propelling them toward the unfathomable capital of Tiandu...
Theme: An artifact has no good or evil; only the heart's convictions make it so. What Frostglow reflects is the light and darkness within people's hearts.
