Late Bloomer

In the fifth year of Yongxin, it snowed heavily in Youzhou. Wang Yu, a seventeen-year-old boy from Zhuojun, embarked on the Northern Expedition with the rusty knife left behind by his father. He just wants to go back alive. Go back to the home where Zhao Gouer shouted "Brother, come back alive" at the entrance of the village. But he didn't know that this road would last a lifetime. The survivors who crawled out from the dead, from ordinary soldiers in Yuyang Camp, to cronies under Yan Gang's tent, to powerful generals - Wang Yu spent twenty-four years to reach the top of the empire. It also took him twenty-four years to lose everything he wanted to protect. The brother Murong Ba who saved his life in the snow eventually became the one who took his life. The young emperor Yuan Chun who was protected by him finally repaid his loyalty in the cruelest way. Zhao Gouer, who always called him "brother", finally blocked the fatal arrow for him and died in his arms. The counselor who had seen everything was silent, and finally drifted away, leaving only one sentence: "General, you defended yourself." Did he hold on?