The Thirteen Imperial Edicts

A sly girl in sheep's clothing × a battle-hardened general who grovels to win his wife back

Thirteen letters from the founding emperor to his wife amid the chaos of war.

Yan Li dreamed of that day again: a raging fire engulfed the ruined temple, the golden statue of the god toppled to the ground, and her mother glanced back at her before charging without hesitation into the deity she worshipped.

When she opened her eyes, she was already among the exiles heading for Wuxian Mountain. She could not become another casualty of the journey, so she stole food, acted helpless, and killed the bailiffs...

One night, deep in the woods, Huo Zhen held a moonlight fox in his left hand and a "little lamb" in his right, its foot dripping with beads of blood.

To return to Tianjing, she set aside her dignity and tried everything to please him. Who knew the general would be so hard-hearted?

She climbed into a trap, and he casually pushed her in. She was beaten, and he watched coldly. She knelt before him in tears, and he called it an act.

She never imagined that one day Huo Zhen would kneel before her, begging her to love him.

In a flower boat on the Chuzhou River, they lay facing each other.

Yan Li said, "There are many things you don't know. For example, I'm a liar..."

"I know it all." Huo Zhen touched her hair by her temples with great care and kissed her forehead. "I know it all."

Huo Zhen would always remember that night, their wedding night among the Buri. Her face flickered in the red candlelight as she said, "I'm always too greedy. I want to be free, but I also want a home."

So later, during their days in Tianjing, he would sit and wait for her at dusk, beneath the glow of the setting sun, then smile and say, "Welcome home."

"Fate always pushes us forward. We have no choice, and we can't turn back..."

If, when they returned to Tianjing's Zhengyang Gate, he had turned his horse around the moment she said she was afraid.

If they had never returned to that man-eating capital.

If they had never been obsessed with manipulating the tides of power.

If they had never sympathized with the fate of a suffering world.

If they had never wanted to destroy this chaotic age and create a new world of equality and universal love.

Would everything have turned out differently...

In the very end, they returned once more to the statue in the ruined temple.

"O deity whom all living beings look up to, can you hear me?"

Theme: Break through the darkness and open up new land.