Huangyu Kingdom was defeated, Queen Kongsanglan surrendered in Kaicheng, and became a maid in Xuanming Palace. Xiao Jinyuan, the monarch who destroyed the country, was once her mother's disciple and promised to be her lifelong brother. Reunited ten years later, he turned all his hatred and longing into humiliation and control. She endured it silently, but when he tore his collar to reveal his childhood token, she saw his rage collapse into red eyes.
He blocked the death penalty for her in the court, cut out the blood from her heart and gave her medicine when she was poisoned, and crushed the wrists of the conspirators at the lantern festival. Wearing the six-petal floral dress he had sewn clumsily, she stood on the top of the reconstructed old capital of Huangyu, watching his back riding away, and whispered: "I'll wait for you to come back."
Her mother died at the hands of his mother, and his mother killed his most respected master - the blood debt entangled between two generations lies in between. She could love him, but she couldn't easily forgive him; he learned to use her way to atone for his sins, but he still couldn't wait for the "Brother Yuan".
At the end of the story, she stood in the wind and turned the "Don't Miss" jade finger left by her mother. The wind blew past the tower, and the phoenix flag whistled. She clenched her fingertips - neither thinking about it nor forgetting it. Love and hate go hand in hand, which is the only way to survive in this crack.
Concept: About the inseparability of love and hate - how she learns to love an "enemy" again on the ruins of her country and her family, and how he learns to say "I'm sorry" in the other person's language between possession and atonement. The discussion is: Some love is not the result of forgiveness, but something that still grows in the cracks that cannot be forgiven.