A Lonely Flute Beneath the Cold Moon

In the early Tang dynasty, the realm was still unsettled. Wars broke out one after another, power changed hands, and palace intrigues added to the turmoil. Feng Guyue, a famed general under Li Shimin, was a celebrated heroine whose military feats were renowned. She had thought she would spend her life amid military affairs, power struggles, and political schemes. Then, quite unexpectedly, she met Ding Xiao, a peerlessly handsome musician with a heart pure as ice and bones like jade. Later, she crossed paths once more with Sha Tianhan, a valiant and supremely capable enemy commander. From that moment on, her life was never the same. Ding Xiao was a musician of many talents. He had believed that loneliness, desolation, gloom, and sorrow would forever shadow his life. He never expected someone to dispel his darkness with her dazzling presence and radiant brilliance, inspiring him to pour all his love into her. Born into poverty, Sha Tianhan championed justice and helped the people. At the end of the Sui dynasty, he joined a peasant rebel army and gradually rose to become its leader. After the dynasty fell, he declared himself king. A life spent campaigning, along with the hard-won understanding that victors become kings and losers are branded rebels, forged his iron resolve. Yet his entanglement with Feng Guyue led him away from the path he had once followed. The gulf between their identities and stations, the differences in their backgrounds and fortunes, and the workings of fate all filled their relationship with uncertainty. How much strength and resolve would they need? What price and effort would they have to give, and how many trials and torments would they have to endure, to make their meeting and understanding of one another worthwhile? Theme: