In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, there was heavy snowfall in the south of the Yangtze River.
Her brother was in trouble and her family was in ruins. Nineteen-year-old Su Jingyu used her life of freedom as a bargaining chip to make a deal with Shen Yanci, who had a large number of soldiers.
She married into the high-walled Shen Mansion and became his caged governor's wife, hoping only to have a stable life in exchange for her parents in the countryside.
The carved beams and painted buildings are a prison, and all kinds of preferential treatment are shackles.
Shen Yanci thought this was an act of repayment and subjugation, and he protected her in an attempt to slowly warm up a heart filled with hatred. The two of them wandered around in the house surrounded by wind and snow, and under their hatred, they quietly developed an attachment that they shouldn't have.
But the "preservation" as a condition of exchange was a lie from beginning to end.
The belated truth suddenly overturned all tenderness. The joy that bloomed in the cage turned out to be just a grand and fragile dream above the ashes.
Concept: In troubled times, personal love is never pure romance. It is wrapped up in layers of power, kindness, lies and destiny. Shen Yanci thought that he was repaying a favor, and Su Jingyu thought that he was changing the safety of his family, but neither of them knew that this deal was based on an irreversible tragedy from the beginning. Tenderness can be a cage, protection can be a debt, and deep love can be a belated confession. When all the truth is revealed, the joy that bloomed briefly above the ashes will eventually dissipate with the wind and snow.