The first year of Yuansheng, New Year's Eve.
On the eve of peace talks between two nations, Xiao An, the most benevolent man in northern Zhong, inexplicably poisons the Tasha envoy and then mysteriously dies. The Tasha ruler has Xiao An's body torn apart by chariots and sends troops to slaughter the city. The "Northern Barbarian Rebellion" begins.
Xiao An's wife hurries to retrieve his body. Wearing her wedding dress, she kneels in the falling snow and spends the whole night stitching his remains together.
In this life, her father rejected her, her mother never acknowledged her, and her friends betrayed her. Only this one person had truly been by her side.
Everyone knows that Xiao An spent his life doing good.
She decides to do whatever it takes to avenge him.
She hides her identity, takes the name "Xie Xiang," and joins the army.
It is not until that day that she discovers who benefited most from Xiao An's death: Prince Qin, Jun Lin.
Prince Qin, Jun Lin, was born into privilege. Gentle and modest, he is renowned throughout the land for his upright and proper character.
In twenty years, the only time he ever made a misstep was when he indirectly contributed to the wrongful case against Xiao An.
Because of it, Prince Qin is consumed by grief and can neither eat nor sleep.
Until that day, when from atop the city wall he sees Xie Xiang fighting alone beneath it, drenched in blood as she battles for Xiao An.
Everyone knows that only one of them can survive.
But in his life, his father was false, his mother died young, and his siblings turned against one another. She is the only one who has truly been by his side.
He would rather change his face and guard her as a substitute.
Until...
The day she discovers that he is Xiao An.
"Everyone knows you and I are enemies.
Yet no one noticed:
Remove one stroke from the word for enemy, and you get an old friend."
Theme: When you have the means, help the whole world.
