On that snowy night in the fourth year of Jianwen's reign, the commander of the Jinyi Guards made Lu Zheng's blood condense into ice crystals on the blue bricks of the prison. Among the seven names he wrote with blood, only the youngest son Lu Chen was circled in cinnabar and pardoned. Fifteen years later, when Lu Chen dug up the frozen soil under the plum tree in his old house, the gilt chi-patterned waistband reflected the snowy light, revealing the same intertwining lotus pattern on the oil-paper umbrella of Miss Shen, the salt transport envoy.
In the political whirlpool of Jinling City, Mr. Xie Ge's golden nanmu sedan pole ran over the spring snow, while the gold-woven ruffles of Shen Qingshuang's horse-faced skirt were passing over the defaced inscription on the "Snow Scenery and Cold Forest Picture" - there was hidden evidence that the Jin Yiwei and the Yanzheng Yamen teamed up to smuggle arms. When Lu Chen disguised himself as a storyteller and sneaked into the poetry gathering, Shen Qingshuang "accidentally" dropped the pine smoke ink ingot, which contained the secret that could unlock the nine-sided defense code.
From the Qinhuai River Painted Boat to the Juyongguan beacon, twelve oil-paper umbrellas engraved with entwining lotus patterns unfolded one after another in the rain and snow. The half mutton-fat jade belt hook hidden in Shen Qingshuang's jade bracelet would spell out a piece of history that was deliberately erased every time it matched with the remaining jade on Lu Chen's waist. And when the white marble steps in front of the Ancestral Temple were soaked with blood, her gold-woven shawl finally wrapped the burnt contract, and the names of two children circled by cinnabar gradually emerged from the ashes - on the Yuan Dynasty night of the third year of the Apocalypse, it turned out that someone had already laid down the first chess piece for this encounter in troubled times.
Purpose: The collision of personal destiny and feelings of family and country in troubled times