Yan Wuzhou, son of the Grand Secretary, is ordered to defend Yuzhou. He promises his childhood sweetheart that they will marry after the war, but encounters a colleague named Wei Zhen, whose jade-like gentleness hides a false heart.
A rebellion, a city fallen, a family destroyed in a single night. Captured and adrift for seven years, he searches for his family with hair turned white.
When they meet again, his wife has married his enemy, and his son does not know his father. In the end, he dies by his own son's blade.
A blood sacrifice in white robes, a shattered realm: the person he trusted most proves to be the cruelest blade.
Theme: Choosing between personal love and hatred and the hatred and love of one's country.
