In March in Lin'an City, the peach blossoms are in full bloom. The petals outside the private school window floated into the school and fell on the pages of the three teenagers' books, quietly beginning their entangled life-long destiny.
Su Yan, the son of a silk and satin merchant, is smart and introverted, but trapped in the expectations of his family; Gu Hanzhou, a high-ranking official, is as gentle as jade, with a ridge in his heart; Shen Qinglan, a scholar from a poor family, is poor and aloof, with an unquenchable fire hidden in his heart. An accidental rescue brought these three teenagers with very different personalities together, and they made a vow in the peach forest to "not wish to be born in the same year, same month, and same day, but wish to die in the same year, same month, and same day."
Youth is as long as poetry. They read and discuss Taoism together, competed in martial arts under the moonlight, went boating on Yingyue Lake, and listened to the rain and drank tea at Ci'an Temple. Shen Qinglan meets Ah Zhi, a girl who makes a living from embroidery. She is as elegant and tough as a gardenia. Her appearance casts a glimmer of light in his lonely world. The shadow of fate has already spread quietly under the appearance of a prosperous age.
The world is about to be in chaos, and three people with their own ambitions join the torrent. They once fought side by side and shared life and death, but they fell apart amidst the great changes when their loved ones lost their lives and their home and country were shattered. Betrayal, choice, struggle... The oaths once made in the peach garden have withstood the cruelest test in the wars and intrigues of troubled times.
When brothers confront each other with swords under the city wall, when old friends meet again in the depths of the clouds in Wushan, when the eyes of adopted orphans are ignited with the flame of an emperor - what will be the ending of this youthful past that began with Tao Qi?
The peach blossoms remain the same year after year, but people are no longer young.
Intention: love separation