Qi and Chu divide the world, but there is an unknown secret hidden in Jinling City.
Su Zhenning, a well-known jade master in Jinling, has always been calm and gentle, never fighting or grabbing. But there is a fatal secret buried deep in his heart - his father Su Zhenying was originally a branch of the Chu royal family. He was secretly ordered to lurk in Qi for seventeen years, and climbed to the position of general step by step, just to change sides and destroy Qi Yangchu. Su Zhenning's biological mother was a wealthy lady in the Chu Kingdom.
He was chosen as the prince's companion since he was a child, and met the eighth prince Xiao Ye in the cannibal palace wall. At that time, Xiao Ye was born as a palace maid and was trampled in the mud by the prince. Everyone could bully him. Only Su Zhenning reached out to him. From then on, the two teenagers shared a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake under the moonlight and looked at the stars in the sky on the roof, thinking that this glance would last ten thousand years.
But Su Zhenying's false accusation killed Xiao Ye's mother and crushed all the warmth between the two people. Xiao Ye climbed up from the mud, endured for ten years, became a general with military merit, and then bloodbathed the court in one night, killed his father and brother, and climbed to the throne on the basis of numerous bones. The first thing he did after taking the throne was to relegate his former best friend Su Zhenning to the cold palace, making his life worse than death.
He forced him to crawl like a dog, beat him until all his ribs were broken, and threw him into a dark water prison. Everyone thought that Su Zhenning would die, beg for mercy, and surrender. But Su Zhenning just wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, smiled and said to him——
"My mother is a princess, and my father is a royal family. You want me to surrender? Do you, a bastard, deserve it?"
The hatred is overwhelming and the feelings are undercurrent. The two of them are trapped in the purgatory given to each other, torturing each other and refusing to let go. Until Zhou Jiaxing, an old friend and Xiao Ye's most trusted general, risked his life to sneak into Jinling and take Su Zhenning away from the cold palace.
The carriage drove all the way south and entered the mountains and rivers of Chu State. There, Su Zhenning met Shen Runyu - as gentle as jade, as her name suggests. He didn't ask about his past or reveal his scars. He just lit a lamp and sat with him until dawn every late night when he woke up from nightmares.
It turns out that true love does not drag the other person into the abyss, but pulls you out of hell and tells you that there is still spring in the world.
A teenage friendship that began on a starry night, a bloody feud across two countries, and a journey of redemption from destruction to rebirth. When Su Zhenning finally broke free from the cage called "Xiao Ye", he discovered that some people appear not to make you hurt, but to make you believe again that you are worthy of being treated tenderly by this world.
Concept: Hate is a prison, love is salvation