Gu Xingzhi is the most proud dandy in Hangzhou. He is proficient in tea and wine making, watching plays and flowers, and making friends with the prince, and he has an elegant taste. Lu Yanzhou, who was returned as a hostage, deliberately used it as an opportunity for Lu Yanzhou to get involved in the court battle, but they fell in love with each other through many trials.
However, rumors about Lu Yanzhou's identity, motives, and abilities persist.
The relationship between the two became the trigger of the crisis. As the Qingliu, Imperial Power, Eunuch and other factions in the court intensified their struggle for power, the Qingliu faction headed by the Gu family was gradually destroyed, and Gu Xingzhi was forced to live anonymously in the world. After ten years of exile, he found an opportunity to return to Hangzhou. With the help of Qiu Xiaoman, Chen Qiaozhi and other Jianghu people, he used a plan to kill Du Xiaoran and Xia Rukai, the two masterminds behind the Gu family's disaster.
But as the family feud was avenged, the mystery of Lu Yanzhou's identity surfaced. On the one hand, Lu Yanzhou, out of self-preservation and on the other hand, to protect the alliance he had reached with Mobei, single-handedly prevented the court from sending troops abroad, and took desperate risks to kidnap courtiers who came to discuss affairs in the court. This ruined his career and landed him in jail.
But the courtiers were still killed, and the government and the public were in an uproar. Involving the prince of Mobei Sect who has been lurking in the Central Plains. Several major cases in the struggle between several factions at that time were all controlled by him. The appearance of Prince Zong completely revealed the ulterior secrets that the Queen Mother, the Emperor and others had hidden for many years. In order to repay Lu Yanzhou's kindness, Gu Xingzhi took a desperate risk to rescue him. The two lived happily in the world, met again many years later, and the lovers finally got married.
Intention: Justice is not just one-sided, nobility or inferiority is in the heart but not in the body