The Western Army Looks Toward Chang'an

Guo Chang'an was born in the Western Regions. Her father said Chang'an was a prosperous, glorious city where foreign nations came to pay tribute. So she set out for Chang'an with her second older brother. A little over a year later, as she looked at the heavily guarded city and its frightened, uneasy people, she couldn't help thinking her father had lied to her...

Shuhu lost her mother when she was young, and her father cherished her like a treasure. Her father was a governor under the Khagan. Every year, he took warhorses to Chang'an to trade for silk, always bringing her along and teaching her how to do business with the Tang people.

That year, her father was going to the Tang Empire to deliver warhorses. At someone's request, he also brought along several Han people and two children...

Guo Chang'an, daughter of Guo Xin, the Anxi Protector-General of the Tang Empire, and Shuhu, daughter of a Uyghur governor, met for the first time.

And so the gears of fate began to turn...

Theme: Doing what you know cannot be done, and accepting with serenity what cannot be helped