Frostflower Tomb focuses on the love between Yan Shuang and Mu Youdi.
Genre: danmei (man disguises himself as a woman)
Setting: The late Qing and early Republican era, amid warlord warfare, political factionalism, assassinations, and social turmoil.
Chu Chenshuang, also known as Yan Shuang, is a man and a collateral descendant of a Qing prince. After the Qing dynasty fell, he took the name Chu Chenshuang and advocated reform. After his uprising failed, he was captured and imprisoned. Later, someone rescued him, and he changed his name and identity, becoming an assassin kept by a warlord.
Mu Youdi is a man and the son of an opera troupe leader. To avoid being conscripted and sent to the battlefield, he was dressed as a girl from childhood and raised as one. Exquisitely beautiful, he excels at music, chess, calligraphy, painting, and proper etiquette, and is especially skilled at playing the flute. He has always carefully hidden the fact that he is a man.
Theme: The choice between repaying kindness and taking revenge, choosing between a lover and a benefactor, and protecting one's family and country
