He is Zhu Qizhen, the emperor who once summoned his subjects to court, now fallen from grace and captured. After losing a single battle, he became the laughingstock of the world. He had once hoped to accomplish great things, but the grassland winds were too cold, eroding his youthful, reckless ideals inch by inch...
She is Baili Ying, a Shu Mountain fairy who has fallen into a dream. By chance, she discovers a scroll about Youquan in the library. Her investigation draws her into one strange, intricate tale after another, entangling her in countless old grudges and tangled relationships: the beautiful young man who writes poems spanning a thousand years in his carefree dreams, the enigmatic shopkeeper like a black cat, the alluring, sexy proprietress of the red boat...
Clues slowly weave themselves into a spiderweb, and the boundary between dream and reality gradually blurs, leaving her anxious and unsettled...
The martial world and the imperial court are caught in upheaval. Treacherous ministers, eunuchs, and demons run amok, while heroes, chivalrous immortals, and swordsmen emerge once more to set this troubled age right.
Who is resisting their maddening fate to the bitter end...
Theme: Cultivating immortality
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