Yan Guihong, the prince of Xueying Kingdom, was imprisoned in Hualing Palace as a hostage and was tortured by the new emperor Chu Wangchen. Due to a misunderstanding when he was young, Chu Wangchen believed that Yan Guihong had betrayed him and imprisoned him for "collaboration with the enemy and treason", humiliating him every day. Yan Guihong went from being gentle and tough to being broken and stubborn after being tempered, but he was still unable to explain the truth of the forced separation. It wasn't until Xie Gubai, Hualing's national master, used witchcraft to look back on the past and reveal that it was the Queen Mother who set up the trap that year, that Chu Wangchen repented and opened the crematorium to pursue his wife. At the same time, Yan Guihong's brother Yan Qingxian and Xie Gubai fell in love, but due to the opposition between the two countries, they eventually died hugging each other on the battlefield, becoming the most sadistic story in the book. In the ending, Chu Wangchen vindicated Yan Guihong, and the two reunited in the mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, and the deputy CP's regret became the background of their happiness.
Purpose: Love and redemption, personal choices under the righteousness of family and country
