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The emperor was wary of the exchange of power between the Xiao family's border guards and the Li family's garrison in the capital. An imperial edict granted Xiao Jiuquan a marriage to the princess Long Xiyue, separating him from his sweetheart Mo Shang.
In order to protect the Xiao and Li clans from the emperor's suspicion and attacks, Xiao Jiuyuan took the initiative to marry Li Moshang, promising to dismantle his private soldiers and send his clan members into the palace as pledges to show his loyalty. The emperor followed suit and ordered the Xiao brothers to get married on the same day, and the four of them were detained in the general's mansion together, waiting for them to develop any suspicion.
After the marriage, the emperor deliberately transferred Mo Shang's father, Li Mu, to guard southern Xinjiang. Xiao Jiuquan didn't want to be trapped in the house and watch the two of them quarreling, and he couldn't worry about Li Mu who was far away at the border. He took the initiative to ask for orders and rushed to southern Xinjiang. During the war, he sacrificed his life to protect Li Mu.
A human life stands between Xiao Jiuyuan and Li Moshang. It is the emperor's plan, and it is also a debt that the two of them cannot overcome in their lives. In the following decades, the two lived in the same hospital but became strangers to each other. Li Moshang worshiped the Buddha behind closed doors to atone for his sins, and passed away peacefully at the age of fifty-five. Three years later, Xiao Jiuyuan also passed away.
After half a lifetime of entanglement, love, hate and guilt, the promise he made when he was young, "If no one wants to marry me, I will marry you", in the end there is only a broken tablet and the sentence: We will never meet again in the next life.
Purpose: true humanity