In the last years of Dajing, wars were raging, the courts were decaying, vassal towns were divided, and Beidi's iron hoof trampled thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.
In the spring scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, Shen Yan and Su Wan fell in love at first sight, and the scholarly young man made a private life-long marriage with a lady from the south of the Yangtze River. Under the lights of the academy, Shen Yan became a life-and-death brother with the son of a general, Lu Chengyu, and made an oath of love with Su Wan and Lin Weiyu. At that time, the young man was full of energy and thought that with his passion, he could save the building from collapse, protect his beloved, and live up to his family and country.
But the fog of Beijing obscures our eyes, and the sharp edge of power cuts our hearts. Gu Hengzhi's hypocrisy betrayed Zhongliang, the Su family was overthrown, and Su's father died tragically. Former close friends are drifting away, and close friends in the boudoir have fallen into lust for power and turned against each other in order to survive. When the family and country were shattered, Lu Chengyu's body was wrapped in horse leather and no bones were left; Shen Yan went from a gentle scholar to a paranoid and lonely minister, living on revenge and bleeding every step of the way.
Su Wan healed all the wounded in the world, but he couldn't heal the people who were separated in the troubled times, and he couldn't heal his heart and turned into despair. She watched her lover go crazy, watched her old friends wither, watched the hell on earth, and finally cut off the rest of her life with a dagger on the day they reunited.
Shen Yan killed all his enemies and captured the capital. He won revenge but lost the whole world. The mountains and rivers are still in turmoil, all the old friends have withered away, the oaths made in the past have become a joke, and all the obsessions will eventually turn into ashes.
Heavy snow covers the capital, and the setting sun shines on the withered bones.
Shen Yan died in battle at the palace gate, Su Wan committed suicide, Lu Chengyu died on the battlefield, Lin Weiyu died, and Gu Heng and others betrayed their relatives and died in the wilderness.
There is no redemption, no reunion, no afterlife.
All deep feelings are in vain; all obsessions are turned into embers.
Dajing fell, the mountains and rivers were shattered, the dreams of young people were broken, and everyone was in mourning.
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