In the late Southern Tang Dynasty, the country's power was declining. Luo Shuitian, a daughter of an aristocratic family, is forced to struggle to survive amid family strife and the undercurrent of the court, secretly paving the way for her move south.
Xie Kanjing, a young general, witnessed the massacre of villages and hated appeasement. He took charge of the defense of Jiangbei at the age of nineteen. He was the sharpest and most isolated sword in the court.
In the first confrontation, he came to the enemy's door and threatened him with suspicion of "collaborating with the enemy". She dealt with it calmly and retorted.
At the palace banquet, he questioned the "singing and dancing" in public, tearing apart the false prosperity. When everyone was drunk, she understood the loneliness, anger and despair in his eyes.
Late at night at Dabaoen Temple, he handed over the map of his journey south: "If Jinling can't be defended, make plans early." She asked back, "What about you?" He replied, "The city is there and the people are here."
From killing each other to getting to know each other, from suspicion to trust. He fought bloody battles at the front, and she supported him at the rear. He gave her half of the broken jade huang: "Half of it will protect the country for me, and the other half will protect you for me."
From tit-for-tat temptations to life-and-death support in troubled times, they cling to the driftwood handed to each other on a giant ship destined to sink. He gave her a map of his journey south, and she guarded the rear for him. He promised her residual jade, and she waited for his triumphant return.
But history has already written the ending. In the spring of the eighth year of Kaibao's reign, the Song army drank from the Yangtze River. The twenty-year-old young general died in Qixiapo in battle and faced Jinling until his death.
After that, the mountains and rivers changed hands, and the old country became ashes. Only the plum tree in the garden, planted by her own hands, bloomed like blood year after year, as if silently telling the story about love and regret, family and country, moment and eternity.
Intention: Choose and persevere