As the Wind Helps It Grow

[If the wind nurtures it, my love burns bright] be

A Heavenly Maiden must have no name. She must sever her emotions and desires, forsake the five flavors, and purify her heart until it is free of all impurities. Only then can she reach the heavens.

A daughter of Heaven, an envoy to the mortal world: this is why she is called a Heavenly Maiden. Connected to Heaven, she receives the faith of the people. When a kingdom faces the omen of its destruction, she performs the rites, kneels upon the earth, and begs Heaven to hear the people's suffering, pity their pain, spare its believers from hardship, and avert disaster from their land.

Under pressure, Zhou Yifeng left behind the battlefield where she had lived as she pleased, took off her armor, and returned home. To escape the fate of being married off, she accepted a mission to protect the Heavenly Maiden.

She didn't believe in Heaven, much less in some so-called Heavenly Maiden, and she despised her from the bottom of her heart. Later, the Heavenly Maiden seemed to want her gone, but Zhou Yifeng ended up falling for her.

Zhou Yifeng's love for her wasn't love at first sight.

Zhou Yifeng knew that she didn't love the woman's body, cold year-round, or her eyes, which never stirred even in the wind. She had simply seen the soul trapped beneath that shell, just as repressed as her own and yearning for freedom.

They were alike, destined to kindle love in the most despairing of times.

Theme: Freedom is precious.