Crossing the River with Flowers

Feng Cheng x Nangong Ling

A lazy, laid-back young marquis bottom x a lovesick general gong

Feng Cheng has spent over a decade as a carefree young marquis, living by the motto "Life is short." He plays the qin at his desk and plants flowers in the courtyard.

He thought he could keep his qin and flowers and lie around in peace until the end of time. But he forgot that when you're born at the center of the struggle for power, you can never truly stay out of it.

In the seventeenth year of Jinghe, after a great victory at the border, the God of War Nangong Ling returns to the capital with glorious military honors.

He is a devil of a general, feared by the enemy and capable of taking on a hundred men at once. Yet the moment he enters Chang'an, he fixes his gaze on the least ambitious young marquis.

At the same time, an old case from years ago, in which an entire family was sentenced to death, comes back into view.

No one expected Feng Cheng, who had always stayed out of worldly affairs, to get involved now.

The worlds of light and shadow emerge, and the five powers change hands in a sweeping reshuffle.

The world is a board, and all living beings are pieces.

The old game collapses, and a new one begins.

A greater conspiracy quietly unfolds.

Those white flowers who seem to bask in the light are often poisonous snakes corrupted by darkness.

But...

Everyone says Nangong Ling is naturally cold and indifferent, with no interests beyond killing enemies on the battlefield. Only Feng Cheng knows that this God of War is a hopeless romantic.

Completely beyond saving.

"I would give everything I have to grant you a world of splendor."

On Feng Cheng's birthday, Nangong Ling offers him everything and vows to love him for all eternity beneath a sky full of blossoms.

Feng Cheng thinks to himself: Having a God of War at my side, someone who can fight and take a beating, doesn't sound too bad.

Theme: We take up swords and blades only to keep the land at peace