Starting from the imperial city of Zhou Yonghe's 17th year, it tells the story of Zhou Mujin, the third prince who bears the blood feud of the previous dynasty, and Xiao Jin, who holds military power but whose life experience is a mystery, from the first temptation in the imperial prison to the life-and-death struggle in the northern battlefield, and finally breaks through the ethics of monarchs and ministers in the strangulation of power. When the imperial edict of marriage breaks the delicate balance, the cold light of the current imperial seal pierces the illusion of peace. One is a royal orphan who must hide his identity, and the other is an iron-blooded general who is ordered to monitor his lover. Amid the frame-up of the prince's gang and the threat of the Di people's cavalry, every touch they have has the warmth of a blade, and every oath of alliance may become evidence in court.
After all, Meiling's agreement was no match for the beacon fire of the imperial city. What was cut off on the execution ground were not only the black iron chains, but also the rules of monarchs and ministers passed down from generation to generation. When the new emperor received the imperial seal at the Taiji Hall, Xiao Jin's figure had disappeared in the wind and snow in the north, leaving only two celadon lamps touching each other under the plum tree during the frost flowering period every year.
Concept: The opposition between the prince and the general, the shackles of the ethics of the monarch and his ministers
, individual emotion's resistance to fate