Snow Blankets the Long River

The north wind swept snow across a thousand miles of river plain.

Wen Zhiyu, the legitimate daughter of a military family, was caught in a court power struggle. Her family was wrongly accused and convicted. The grand halls that had once brimmed with splendor were reduced to dust in an instant. She cast off her sheltered young-lady's finery, concealed her identity, and endured the storm-tossed chaos of the age, seeking only to clear her family’s name.

Xie Xingyao was a powerful minister who had risen to fame in his youth. He commanded a great army and bore the emperor’s trust, climbing step by step to the pinnacle of power. Their positions drove a wedge between them. Bound by his duties at court, he knew she carried a blood feud, yet still fell for her when he shouldn’t have.

They first met at a snowy frontier pass, and he fell for her at a glance. When they met again, they faced each other at court, each with their own loyalties, probing and mistrusting one another.

The weight of duty to their country rested on their shoulders, while layers of intrigue surrounded an old case. Their hearts were drawn to each other even as they struggled against one another, forced to stand on opposite sides.

He could not abandon his duty to the court, and she could not let go of the blood debt owed to her family. Tangled in love and hate, unable to move forward or retreat, they hid their feelings beneath the snow and ice, where they could never see the light of day.

Conspiracies swept through the court, and the old case resurfaced, exposing wounds everywhere.

The snow and wind along the river plain returned year after year. Some went to the battlefield for their country, while others remained trapped by the obsessions of the past.

Even with their hearts in harmony, they could not withstand the vicissitudes of life.

Snow fell across the river plain. The one who had left could not return. All that remained for the rest of their lives was a silent land, with year after year of snow and wind carrying their longing.

Amid the snow and wind blanketing the thousand-mile river plain, Wen Zhiyu, the orphaned daughter of a fallen military family, meets Xie Xingyao, the young minister who holds power over the imperial court.

Their family feud and the court’s schemes stand between them, while love and hate quietly take root amid political intrigue.

They fall for each other, grow suspicious, struggle against their feelings, and love without being able to stay together.

Snow blankets the land. A fateful encounter ends in a heartbreak that cannot be resolved.

Theme: Historical political intrigue