Su Qingwan is the most prestigious prime minister's daughter in the capital. She is gentle, dignified, and soft-hearted at a young age. She meets the down-and-out scholar Shen Yanci by chance in a cold night bookstore.
At that time, he was poor and lonely, studying hard in a cold window, with frost often forming on the edge of his inkstone. He stayed at his desk until late at night every day. He was proud and rugged, and never groveled. She cherished his talent and respected his character. She secretly gave him pen and ink, exchanged poems with him, and secretly promised him the rest of her life. The two of them made a secret love agreement in a deserted place. They only waited for him to be named on the gold medal list, and then they sought a good relationship and stayed together year after year, living up to their original intentions.
Once the results were released in the spring, Shen Yanci became the number one scholar and became famous in Beijing.
But the court was turbulent, and the imperial power was full of checks and balances. The emperor was afraid that the prime minister's power would dwindle to the ruling and opposition parties, so he forcibly included him in the chess game, and threatened the lives of the entire Su family to marry Princess Jinzhi.
Overnight, the mountains and seas overturned, and all the love was locked in dust.
In order to keep her and her family stable, Shen Yanci reluctantly hid his deep feelings and cut off the past with his own hands. She was cold and distant in front of others, deliberately drawing a clear line with Su Qingwan, letting the rumors in the city destroy her reputation, and letting her be ridiculed and looked down upon by others. No one knows that every quiet night, he sits alone in an empty hall, the inkstone is frosted, and her name is written all over the pen, tearing up the paper full of lovesickness, not daring to show any tenderness.
She waited for his spring breeze to return, but what she waited for was the grand ceremony of Shili Hongzhuang marrying the princess.
The enthusiasm in her heart was finally covered by the frost. Su Qingwan was disheartened, gathered all her love, thanked the guests behind closed doors, and sealed all the heartbeats of her youth deep in the years.
Over the past few years, power plans have been ups and downs, and the government and opposition parties have been in turmoil. Shen Yan worked hard at every step, forbearing in planning, and finally wiped out the traitors in the court, gained power over the world, and broke free from all shackles.
But when he came back covered with wind and frost, the girl with gentle eyebrows and eyes in the past had long lost all her enthusiasm, her heart was as calm as frost, and she no longer had any flutter.
Frost has fallen on the edge of the inkstone, and the pen and ink have aged over time.
He won the chess game in the world and the ups and downs of the world, but lost the sweetheart who warmed his inkstone for him that cold night.
A young love that began when we first met by an inkstone ended with regrets for half our lives.
Frost covers the pen and ink, the lovesickness, and the years they can never get back.
Concept: ancient costume romance