Shen Zhaoning is the most inconspicuous editor of Daliang History Museum.
The word she has written the most in her life is "taboo" - taboo for the venerable and taboo for the dead. As for those who made the mountains and rivers safe, there is no place for them in the history books.
Until that snowy night, she picked up a man covered in blood by a dry well.
His name is Xiao Muye, and he became famous all over the world with three thousand remaining soldiers guarding the isolated city three years ago. Now being falsely accused of treason, everyone in the family is beheaded, and they are on the run.
She had hidden "Records of the North" for him for three years, and he asked her why she kept an old book that no one cared about.
"Someone has to remember," she coughed blood and smiled, "if the historian doesn't remember, the mountains and rivers will be remembered."
For the next three months, she went to the abandoned village every seven days to deliver medicine, and he told her the names of the dead on every inch of land on the border.
There is no romance, only two dying people, trying desperately to protect the last bit of truth in this rotten world.
When the Queen Mother's men came after her, he pushed her out of the sea of fire with his life.
In the cave, he leaned on her shoulder and dictated the 37,000-word truth about the war in the North.
At dawn, his hand dropped, but she did not cry.
Later, someone found a female corpse in Beishan, holding half of a burnt old book in her arms, with her face buried in the pages.
Wu Zuo said that he died of cold due to an old illness.
No one knows who she is.
But on an unknown hill in the north, there is an extra wordless stone tablet.
People burn paper every year in front of the monument, but no one dares to carve a single word.
Shanhe remembers them.
That's enough.
Purpose: The history books are full of emperors and generals, but those who made the mountains and rivers safe will be remembered by the mountains and rivers for them.