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In the fifteenth year when the world fell apart, Shen Jinghan held a blood-stained sword for the first time in a ruined temple on the border. At that time, his name was Ahan, and he was an orphan picked up by a refugee couple. There was a shallow scar on his forehead, the mark of crawling among corpses when he was young. His adoptive parents always said that his eyes were too cold, unlike a sixteen-year-old boy, but they didn't know that he would dream of the flames of the vermilion palace wall collapsing every night - that was the last scene he saw with his own eyes as the youngest son of Marquis Jing, hiding in the secret room of the palace carriage when the Huiyue Dynasty fell. In troubled times, human life is like nothing. On the day when his adoptive parents were killed by soldiers to protect him, Ahan sat next to the corpse for three days. When he stood up, the last bit of warmth in his eyes was extinguished. He dug out the jade pendant engraved with the word "" in the ruins and finally admitted who he was. On that day, a man wearing a silver mask came to him, handed him a book of war, and said: "Lingyuan Pavilion knows what you want, and what we want is to make the moon shine again." No one knew the origins of Lingyuan Pavilion. They only knew that they were well-informed and could always send food and grass to Shen Jinghan when he was in the most distressed state, and deliver secret messages to break the situation when he was surrounded and suppressed by the princes. He started by gathering the refugees, using a knife and all his strength to build a team. Most of the team were orphans like him. They called him "Brother Han" and believed that he could carve a way out. He ran the army very strictly, but he would distribute the only rations he had to the wounded soldiers, and would first provide relief to the victims after capturing the city - this gradually made his army famous and became a thorn in the eyes of various princes. Some people called him a remnant of the previous dynasty and a clown; some people were afraid that he could use soldiers like a god and called him "Cold Blade". He fought for seven years, from the border to the Central Plains, stepping on mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and surrounded by brothers one after another. Lingyuan Pavilion always followed him like a shadow, sometimes helping, sometimes setting up obstacles. He knew that they were just using each other, but when he was shot through the shoulder by a hidden arrow, he took the wound medicine handed over by the female doctor in the pavilion. The concern hidden in the word "be careful" reminded him of the voices of his adoptive parents. When the decisive battle started at the gate of the old capital, the opponent was the King of the North who had occupied the imperial city for the longest time. Shen Jinghan stood alone in front of the formation, pulled off his helmet to reveal the scar on his forehead, and shouted out the truth about the injustice done to everyone in the Jinghou Mansion. Many of the defenders on the city tower were from the former dynasty. When they heard the word "Jinghou", all the arrows in their hands dropped. On the day the city was destroyed, Shen Jinghan walked into the already ruined Jinghou Mansion without wearing a dragon robe, only a suit of armor that had been washed white. The people from Lingyuan Pavilion came to say goodbye, and the voice behind the silver mask was a little hoarse: "The new emperor has been found. He is the great nephew of the late emperor who lives among the people." He nodded and took out a smooth wooden sign from his arms, which was a peace charm made by his adoptive parents before they were alive. Later, people all over the world said that the regent Shen Jinghan was a hard-hearted man. He abolished the harsh government, killed corrupt officials, and reunited the divided country, but he never smiled or talked about the past. Only on the anniversary of the death of his adoptive parents every year, he would go alone to the rebuilt ruined temple on the border and sit there for half a day. The peach blossoms outside the temple bloomed and faded, very much like the one that his adoptive parents always planted in the courtyard when he was a boy. When the year number of Huiyue was lit up again, Shen Jinghan stood on the palace wall and looked at the lights of thousands of families, rubbing the jade pendant with the word "scape" with his fingertips. The lonely shadow of those days has long grown into a tree that can support the sky. Only occasionally when the wind blows, I will still think of the young man named Ahan, who once thought that surviving was the greatest luxury in this life. Concept: ? Xuan