Song Jingzhi and Mo Linyuan met as children and were classmates for several years, but they couldn't stand each other. They had the sort of distant friendship between gentlemen, like water.
Later, they both became officials in the same dynasty. Song Jingzhi was a cool-headed, upright minister of Jin, honest in office and uninterested in factional alliances.
One day, Mo Linyuan suddenly confessed his love to Song Jingzhi.
Confronted by Mo Linyuan's sudden outburst, Song Jingzhi dismissed his words as nonsense. He had no intention of paying him any attention, much less having anything to do with him.
But life is unpredictable, and things did not go as he wished. Song Jingzhi was forced aboard the "pirate ship" Mo Linyuan had prepared just for him.
As the two faced internal and external crises together, their feelings gradually changed. They grew to admire one another, loving and fighting each other in equal measure.
But after Mo Linyuan became emperor, their differences drove them apart. Resentment grew between them, and they drifted further and further away.
The man who had once slaughtered an entire city to save him now massacred his entire clan because of him.
"Huaiqing, even if you die, you'll die by my hand alone."
Later, after Song Jingzhi calmly drank the poisoned wine Mo Linyuan had bestowed upon him right in front of him, Mo Linyuan went mad and turned white-haired overnight.
In this vast world, where is home? They had promised to walk together beneath one umbrella in Baidi City. Now, with one buried beneath the earth and the other sharing the same snowfall, could they still be said to have grown old together?
Theme: Live in the present, don't dwell on the past, don't fear the future, and make the most of the rest of your life.
