Xiao Jinheng, the regent of Dajing, wields power in both the government and the public. Everyone knows that he is bloodthirsty, cruel and murderous. After the fall of Nanliang, Su Weilan was sent to the palace in the name of Princess Nanliang. The civil and military officials of the court were waiting for her to kill her enemies with her own hands and sacrifice her country to death. Only she knew clearly - she was just a knife that had been carefully polished for ten years, and even the hatred was poured into it by others.
Everyone said that he was cruel and murderous, killing loyal people, but she believed him. But his tenderness was hidden in the hand stove that was delivered late at night, in the indentations of the broken pages handed to her for inspection, and in the palm that he held up even though he knew the cup was poisonous that night at the palace banquet. When she finally peeled back the layers of the chess game and saw the truth clearly, she realized that her hatred and resentment were directed at the same person from beginning to end - the only person who had been protecting her from beginning to end.
He was always waiting in place - waiting for her to find out the truth, waiting for her to let go of her obsession, waiting for her to come to him willingly one day.
The mountains and rivers are safe, and the wind and snow are at peace. The rest of your life is long, only enough to love one person.
Intention: The real salvation is not to be saved by someone, but to get out of the confusion yourself. Xiao Jinheng knew all the truth from beginning to end, but he would not reveal it for her, only leaving clues for her to investigate on her own. Because he knew that what she needed was the ability to break the cage with her own hands, rather than being taken out of the cage by another person. This kind of respect is more precious than any protection - he believes that she can bear it, that she can wake up, that she has light in her bones.