Maple Ashes in the Northern Frontier

In her previous life, Shen Yueming, legitimate daughter of the General of the Nation’s Defender household, was named Princess Yongle by imperial decree after her father and brothers died in battle on the northern frontier. She was ordered to marry Lin Wenyuan, a rising noble. They spent ten years together. She revered him as her benefactor and the emperor as her sovereign, until secret records from Luofeng Gorge came to light. Only then did she learn that her entire loyal family had died because of the emperor’s suspicions and the schemes of the man at her side. A mouthful of blood splashed across the old documents, and she died consumed by hatred. Reborn into a new life, the army has yet to depart, and her father and brothers are still by her side. Determined to turn her fate around, she will root out the traitor, overturn the wrongful case, and drag every conspirator into the abyss. By chance, she meets the Prince of Jingbei, who guards the northern frontier. He has defended the border since his youth, commands a powerful army, and has long been at odds with the imperial court. He, too, has doubts about the border army’s crushing defeat years ago. From wary allies to confidants who entrust each other with their lives, he accompanies her across the snowy northern frontier as they uncover the truth, layer by layer. Beneath the smoke of war, the moon shines on. She will not only clear the Shen family’s name, but also guard this vast land alongside him, year after year.