Before Ah Wu was fourteen years old, he was a beggar who was about to freeze to death in a ruined temple in Linhai City. Fourteen years later, she was the reincarnation of an empress that was kept secret in history books. Her palms could freeze and her breath could form frost.
On the day she implemented the imperial examination for women, the old ministers grabbed their heads and cried, "The rituals are broken and the music is ruined"; the night she defended the city with a cold jade sword, the rebels said she was a witch who used virgins to make medicine.
Only the boy with amber eyes always stood behind her: "Awu, I will accompany you to the end."
But she knew it in her heart: every time the ice condensed into a blade, her body temperature dropped by one point, and that cold gaze never left her.
Until the spring equinox of the first year of Yongchu - when the young general rushed to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, he only received her last message before she disappeared:
"See for me... The spring in Plum Village."
Later, it became common for women to enter school, take imperial examinations, and become officials. Only in the remote Beiyuan village, there are always people planting plum blossoms every spring equinox.
——Everyone said she won. ——No one knows what she lost.
Intent: Women's awakening, rules reset