Li Yunjing had lost all will to live.
His country and family were both destroyed, and his future lay in ruins. He collapsed deep in the mountains of Xuan Shan, wishing only to waste away in silence.
Then a bowl of hot porridge was rudely shoved down his throat, making him cough uncontrollably. When he looked up, he saw a mountain girl named Mao Ya, alone in the world, her expression resolute and her spirit brimming with life.
She enlisted on her own, rising from an obscure herb-gatherer to the commander Shuang Feng, who destroyed her own face before the army and struck terror into the enemy.
He insisted on following her, rising from a fallen young master forced to conceal his name to a strategist hidden behind the scenes, protecting her with unwavering loyalty.
At the Battle of Haoying Lake, he was swept into the rapids, his life and death unknown.
She was ennobled and made chancellor, yet willingly laid down her armor and wandered in search of him.
"The realm is at peace now. Why did you break your promise?"
Theme: The struggles of two lovers with very different temperaments amid a chaotic age
