In the spring of the third year of Jianyuan, five-year-old Ling Yunfei climbed over the wall and thrust an unedged dagger into Murong Xue's hand: "A sharp blade will hurt you, but a blunt weapon is enough for self-defense."
The cherry blossoms in Chang'an City have fallen and bloomed again, and the childhood sweethearts have grown into generals with bright clothes and angry horses.
The night before he left for the expedition, she wrote the word "Promise" on his palm; he engraved the silver hairpin of "We will return together" on her temple hairpin.
In the winter of the first year of Yuanguang, the imperial edict came - Zhenyuan General Ling Feng was killed in battle, and his son Ling Yunfei immediately went to war.
The snow at the border has been falling for three years, dyeing the wedding dress she made overnight red, and also dyed his last letter home red:
"Xue'er, if I haven't returned yet, there's no need to wait."
She didn't wait after all.
Dressed in red makeup and changed into a military uniform, they rushed thousands of miles to the battlefield of blood and sand.
What she saw was him with thirteen arrows in his body, kneeling in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, smiling at her:
"I'm sorry... I broke my promise..."
She took off his blood-stained cloak and covered each other.
Heaven and earth are witnesses, corpses are guests, and heavy snow is a wedding dress:
"The Emperor and the Empress are above me—I, Murong Xue, marry Ling Yunfei today."
Later, her name was engraved on the altar of the Xiongnu royal court.
Later, everyone in the court called her "General Snow" in awe.
Later, she spent ten years killing all the Xiongnu and purging the court.
Later, she walked into their common tomb with the unedged dagger.
There are only two words on the tombstone——
Return together.
Purpose: Between personal love and the righteousness of family and country, explore the ultimate weight of commitment and women's self-awakening and strength in the torrent of history. True loyalty is not only about staying together in life and death, but also about carrying on the legacy and completing the unfinished work.