The snow in the north has not stopped for ten years; the rain in the capital is always bloody.
Xiao Che, the Marquis of Zhenbei, is a man of iron who crawled out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain. His black armor is stained with frost, and only his family, country and battlefield are visible in his eyes. It is said that he has beheaded the prince of an enemy country and buried the withered bones of his colleagues. His heart is as hard as the ice in the north.
Xie Lin, a Hanlin scholar, was a beauty raised in the mist and rain of the south of the Yangtze River. He wore plain clothes and held a scroll. His pen could draw mountains and rivers, and also describe the undercurrents of the court. He was a popular figure in front of the Queen Mother and a "noble nobleman banished to immortality" in the eyes of all officials, but no one knew that he had a poison-quenching dagger hidden in his sleeve.
A sudden "collaboration case" tied together two people who should have had nothing to do with each other - Xiao Che was framed, and Xie Lin was ordered to interrogate the case. One is a rebellious general who is used to seeing the light of swords; the other is a gentle and sinister civil servant who is used to playing with people's hearts.
The wind and snow in the north collided with the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River. It was tit-for-tat confrontation, testing and suspicion, but in each confrontation, we could see the scars under each other's armor: Xiao Chehu's "home and country" concealed his guilt for his old army; Xie Linyan's "gentleness" wrapped up his revenge on his relatives.
When the border war breaks out again and the conspiracy in the court gradually emerges, will they become each other's swords, or will they stand side by side so that the cranes in the north can finally return to the dust-free world?
This is a story about two men who formed a bond in a desperate situation amidst intrigues and wars, and redeemed each other in troubled times.
Intention: I love you infinitely