"What are you afraid of?"
"Afraid of what others say."
That night when the bells of Jiming Temple were ringing and it was cold in the night, there was a man kneeling in the hall:
"Then let her be safe and happy, and have everything she loves for the rest of her life."
What he has in hand is a newly broken cherry blossom.
This is a story about the love and hatred between a lame general and a penniless lady in a troubled time.