A piece of impeachment tore open the bloody curtain of border corruption; three years of obsession turned into a bone-piercing frost blade in front of the Tai Chi Palace.
Civilian Zhang Changlin remonstrated with his life, but was thrown into a prison by his former lover and iron-faced general Mo Liang. When the blood accounts of border refugees freezing to death intersect with the poisonous mist of "smoke of death", the truth is like a cold branch breaking, revealing the broken heart hidden under the black iron armor.
He once shielded him from arrows and left scars, and he once promised him peach blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River.
But in the whirlpool of power and intrigue, he became a collaborator and a cold-blooded executioner.
On the way to the Western Expedition, poisonous wine penetrated the intestines, and the truth was like a knife cutting through the mouth: those false accusations, betrayals, and life-and-death struggles were all to protect him. Outside the Yumen Pass where the yellow sand filled the sky, he hugged his increasingly cold body and finally understood the love soaked in painstaking efforts in the memorial.
"Mo Liang, I have never regretted loving you."
The cold branches are broken and the bones are smoke. Who will turn the blood and tears into the final swan song in the political arena?
Intention: Use power and strategy as the blade to cut open the rotten flesh of the feudal dynasty; use blood and tears as ink to write the thorny road of love in troubled times. Through the mutual killing and redemption of the two male protagonists in the vortex of power, it reveals the suffering of people's livelihood and the darkness of officialdom under the solidification of class, and at the same time shows the brokenness and rebirth of sincerity in the game of interests. The story uses "cold branches" to symbolize loyalty broken by the times, and uses "broken branches" to symbolize the tragic ending of idealists. Finally, in the double strangulation of power and love, it plays a soul-stirring elegy for humanity.
